Location

The Elise Richter hall is located in the main building of the Vienna University at Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Vienna. When entering the building from the main entrance, the Elise Richter Hall will be on the left side of the building, one story above the entrance, and can be reached via the stairwell.

Elise Richter was an Austrian novelist and university professor who, in 1905, was the first woman at the Vienna University to achieve habilitation, the highest of academic qualifications. She taught at the university until 1938, when she was forced to leave by the Nazis. Because she was Jewish, she was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt in 1943 and was murdered there.