Karl Richter (botanist)


Karl Richter was a botanist from Austria-Hungary.
From 1874 he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1877. After completing his studies at the university he worked as a private scholar in Vienna. His herbarium was acquired by Eugen von Halácsy, who incorporated it into his own herbarium, which was later donated to the University of Vienna.
With Robert [Louis August Maximilian Gürke|Max Gürke], he was co-author of Plantae Europaeae. In 1885 he published Die botanische Systematik und ihr Verhältniss zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen.