Richthofen, Baron von, traveller and geographer, born in Carlsruhe, Silesia; accompanied in 1861 the Prussian expedition to Eastern Asia, travelled in 1862-68 in California, and in 1869-72 in China; has since been professor of Geography successively at Bonn, Leipzig, and Berlin; has written a great work on China; (b. 1833).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich * Ricord, Philippe