Aladar Richter

* Rimaszombat, January 5, 1868 – † Budapest, June 11, 1927 / botanist, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1911) ; ; He graduated from high school in his hometown. In 1890, he earned a doctorate in humanities and a teaching certificate in botany from the Budapest University of Science and Technology, from 1891 he was a real school teacher in Versec, and in 1891–1892 he continued his studies at universities abroad (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium). In 1892, the University of Göttingen invited him to become an assistant, but he chose the position of assistant professor at the University of Cluj. From 1893, he was a high school teacher in Arad, from 1895 in Budapest, and in the meantime, in 1896–1897, he studied abroad again (Berlin, Graz). In 1897 he was a private university teacher in Budapest, in 1898 he was the head of the Botanical Garden of the National Museum of Natural History, in 1899 he was the deputy of general botany at the University of Cluj-Napoca, in 1901 he became a full professor and director of the library department of the Transylvanian Museum. He established the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Museum and a new, general botanical institute at the university. He retired in 1913. Between 1913 and 1919 he lived in Bratislava, then settled in Budapest. He was a pioneer of plant anatomy and physiology research in Hungary, his findings in plant histology being particularly significant. In his scientific work he represented the physiological plant anatomy trend. He studied the flora of Gömör and Abaúj-Torna counties, and discovered a new blackberry species in the Stósz area, which he named after his high school teacher, János Fábry (Losonc) (Rubus fabryi). In addition to his research and teaching activities, he also dealt with cultural policy issues, especially the establishment and development of university institutes, museums, and botanical gardens. He also prepared a plan for a botanical garden to be established in Bratislava. ; ; His main works: ; Über die Blattstruktur der Gattung Cecropia, 1898, ; Data for the physiological-anatomical and systematic knowledge of Marcgraviaceae and Aroideae, 1899, ; Physiologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen über Luftwurzeln, 1900, ; From the travel diary of a Hungarian nature diver I – II., 1904–1905, ; The Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden of the Hungarian Royal Franz Joseph University of Cluj-Napoca 1872–1904, 1905, ; The Botanical Museum of the Hungarian University of Cluj-Napoca and the Transylvanian National Museum, Cluj-Napoca, 1905, ; Phylocenetisch-taxonomische und physiologíschanatomische Studien über Schizaea, 1915, ; The Physiological Anatomy of a New Schizaea from Borneo and Its Related Species, 1915, ; The Water-Retaining Tissue and Some Cases of Physiological Dicotyledon, 1916, ; Comparative Structural and Developmental Studies on Marcgraviacea Leaves, 1917, ; The Historical Significance of the Naturalist István Apáthy in Science and Politics, 1923