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Jean Paul Richter

<p><b>Jean-Paul Richter</b> (7 June 1847 – 25 August 1937) was a German <a href="/en/Art_historian" title="Art historian" class="mw-redirect wl">art historian</a>.</p>

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<p>Born in <a href="/en/Dresden" title="Dresden" class="wl">Dresden</a> as the son of a theologian, Richter studied theology himself, becoming tutor to the young <a href="/en/Alexander_Frederick,_Landgrave_of_Hesse" title="Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse" class="wl">Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> His appointment as tutor gave him the opportunity to travel around Europe and he became interested in <a href="/en/Italian_art" title="Italian art" class="wl">Italian art</a>. He wrote tourist guides for <a href="/en/Baedecker" title="Baedecker" class="mw-redirect wl">Baedecker</a> and in 1876 met <a href="/en/Giovanni_Morelli" title="Giovanni Morelli" class="wl">Giovanni Morelli</a>, whom he later introduced to <a href="/en/Bernard_Berenson" title="Bernard Berenson" class="wl">Bernard Berenson</a>. He moved to London in 1877 and wrote several catalogues of art, but is chiefly remembered today for his work on the notebooks of <a href="/en/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci" class="wl">Leonardo da Vinci</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>

<p>His wife <span class="new">Luise Marie Schwaab</span> and their daughters <span class="new">Irma</span> and <a href="/en/Gisela_Richter" title="Gisela Richter" class="wl">Gisela M. A. Richter</a> were also art historians.</p>



Jean-Paul Richter was a German art historian. Born in Dresden as the son of a theologian, Richter studied theology himself, becoming tutor to the young Alexander Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse. His wife Luise Marie Schwaab and their daughters Irma and Gisela M. A. Richter were also art historians. 