Elise Richter

Elise Richter ( born March 2, 1865 in Vienna, † 21 June 1943 Ghetto Theresienstadt) was an Austrian Romance languages ​​and university professor. In 1905 she qualified as the first woman at the University of Vienna.

Life

Elise Richter was the daughter of the chief of the Medical Practitioner's kk priv Südbahngesellschaft Dr. Maximilian Richter ( * 1824 Trencsén, Hungary, † 1890 Vienna) and his wife, Emilie ( Emmy ) Lackenbacher (* 1832 Essegg; † 1889 Vienna) was born and grew up in upper- middle-class background an assimilated Jewish family. She had an older sister Helene, who was known as Anglistin. At 20, she fell ill with rheumatism, which she never got rid of. In 1891 she was allowed to visit individual lectures at the University of Vienna as an auditor. When it was founded in 1896 women allowed to stand for matriculation examination, put Richter 31 -year-old as Externistin at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna, the Matura - the first woman. A year later, women were also admitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. Judge Romance enrolled as a regular listener, completed her degree in 1901 and his habilitation in 1905 as the first woman at the University of Vienna. In 1921 she was nominated again as the first woman to Associate Professor (sic). She later headed the Phonetic Institute. She examined the physiological and psychological bases of language. As in 1929, the Department of Romanistische Literature at the University of Innsbruck was vacant, there was no in Austria habilitated Romanists than the already 61 -year-old Elise judges who came out of the question because of their age

Richter was also politically active, founded the " Association of academics " and called 1927 on establishing a women's party. She taught until her expulsion from the university by the National Socialist regime, due to the racial laws in 1938.

1943 Richter was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. A few months after the deportation, she died on 21 June 1943.

In 2008 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Elise Richter way to her.

Richter Library

1942 reached the library of the two sisters of about 3,000 volumes under the political pressure of the Nazi period to the University of Cologne. Once there, the correspondence was found in the library archive, since 2005 reconstructed this library as part of the Nazi provenance research, published, and - if possible - restituted to heirs. In addition, to be named after the judge Sisters in Cologne a small square between the University and City Library and Philosophikum.

Elise Richter price

The German Romanists Association awards since 1999 at the German Romanists Tags doped with a 1,500 Euro prize for outstanding Romanist and Habilitation theses, is named after Elise Richter.

Works

• The chronological phonetics. Vienna 1934.
• Sum of life, autobiography ( typescript 1940), pressure Vienna 1997