!!!Richter, Elise

Richter, Elise, b. Vienna, March 2, 1865, 
d. Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezín, Czech Republic), 
June 23, 1943, linguist. first woman in Austria to be granted a 
lectureship in Romance philology (1907) and the first woman to carry 
the title of university professor (1922). Head of the Institute of 
Phonetics at the University of Vienna, researched the physiological 
and psychological fundamentals of language.

!Works
Zur Entwicklung der roman. Wortstellung aus der latein., 1903; 
Grundlinien der Wortstellungslehre, 1919; Summe des Lebens, 1997 
(autobiography).

!Literature
OeBL.



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