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### Author
Richter, Paul Gerhard (1837-1913), German (Saxonian) algologist; close associate of L. Rabenhorst; high school teacher at Leipzig 1861-1907; editor from 1879 of Rabenhorst's *Krypt.-Fl.* ed. 2.
**Abbreviated name**: *P.G. Richt.* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.G.Richt.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Issued *Phykotheka generalis*, Sammlung getrockneter Algen sämmtlicher Ordnungen und aller Gebiete, fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-750. Leipzig 1885-1896; fasc. 1-7 with F. Hauck (q.v. TL-2/2: 100), q.v. for a list of complete sets. The *Phykotheka* is in fact a continuation of L. Rabenhorst's *Die Algen Europas*. Richter contributed also to this latter series.
Richter contributed also to V. Wittrock & O. Nordstedt, *Algae aquae dulcis*. – Correspondence with W.G. Farlow on the Phykotheka at [[Collection FH|FH]].
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(2): 922; Barnhart 3: 154 (b. 16 Mai 1937, d. 19 Jul 1913); Clokie p. 232; CSP 5: 745, 4: 174, 12: 616, 18: 190; De Toni 1: cvii, 2: lxiii, ci, cxxv, 4: xlvii; IH 2: (in press); KR p. 589; LS 1343; Morren ed. 10, p. 22; Nordstedt p. 35, suppl. p. 13, 18; TL-2/see F. Hauck; Urban-Berl. p. 268, 388.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 31: (182). 1913 (d.).; Bot. Centralbl. 22: 90. 1885 (announcement *Phykotheka*); Bot. Not. 1914: 31 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 43: 189-190. 1885 (announcement Phykoteka); Hedwigia 54: (125). 1913; Nuova Notarisia 25: 137-138. 1914 (bibl.).
- Bary, A. de, Bot. Zeit. 44: 431. 1886 (fasc. 1 of *Phykotheca*).
- Dodel-Port, A., Bot. Centralbl. 34: 213-215, 249-250, 283-285. 1888 (rev. fasc. 1-3 *Phykotheca*), 42: 362-367. 1890 (id. fasc. 4-5).
- Kolkwitz, R., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 32: (64)-(67). 1914 (obit., bibl.).
- VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. diat. 4: 2366. 1971; 6: 3585. 1978, 7: 4223. 1978.
#### Composite works
- (1) Fresh water algae (except diat.) in O. Kuntze, *Rev. gen. pl.* 3(2): 385-391. 1898.
- (2) Richter signed as "Die Redaktion" (the editors/editor) for L. Rabenhorst's *Krypt. Fl.* ed. 2, in vol. 5, preface to Migula, *Synopsis Characearum*. See under L. Rabenhorst. Kolkwitz (1914) states that Richter was editor for the *Krypt.-Fl.* from 1879.
- (3) *Grönländische Süsswasseralgen*, Bibl. bot. Heft 42, 1899, *Botanische Ergebnisse der*... unter Leitung Dr. von Drygalski's ausgesandten *Grönlandsexpedition*...", ed. E. Vanhöffen.
- (4) Richter also ran the *Leipziger botanischer Tauschverein*, see e.g. his Doubletten-Verzeichniss, xxviii. Tauschjahr, Jan 1879, 24 p. (copy HH).