Eduard Richter

He studied history and geography at the University of Vienna, where his instructors included Theodor von Sickel and Friedrich Simony. From 1871 to 1886 he was a gymnasium teacher in Salzburg, and in 1886 became a professor of geography at the University of Graz. In 1895 he traveled to Norway in order to conduct glaciological studies.^[1]

From 1883 to 1885 he served as central committee president of the "German and Austrian Alpine Club" (DÖAV), and in 1898-1900 was president of the International Glacier Commission.^[2] In August 1871, with Alpinist Johann Stüdl, he was the first to ascend to the summit of the Schlieferspitze (3289 m).^[3]

He is best remembered for his glaciological and limnological research of the eastern Alpine region. Among his numerous writings were an 1888 survey of 1012 glaciers found in the eastern Alps and a 1900 geomorphological study of the High Alps.^[4] With Albrecht Penck, he was editor of Atlas der Österreichischen Alpenseen (Atlas of the Austrian Alpine lakes, 1895).^[5]

• Der Krieg in Tirol im Jahre 1809, (1875) – The war in Tirol in 1809.
• Das Herzogthum Salzburg, 1881 – The Duchy of Salzburg.
• Die Gletscher der Ostalpen, 1888 – Glaciers of the eastern Alps.
• Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, 1893-94 (editor) – The development of the eastern Alps.
• Seestudien. Erläuterungen zur zweiten Lieferung des Atlas der österreichischen Alpenseen, 1896 – Lake studies, notes to the second installment for the Atlas of the Austrian Alpine lakes.
• Geomorphologische Untersuchungen in den Hochalpen, 1900 – Geomorphological investigations of the High Alps.
• Historischer Atlas der österreichischen Alpenländer, 1906 (editor) – Historical atlas of the Austrian Alps.^[6]