Background
Hans-Egon Richert was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany.
mathematician university professor
Hans-Egon Richert was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany.
He attended the University of Hamburg and received his Doctor of Philosophy under Max Deuring in 1950.
He is the author (with Heini Halberstam) of a definitive book on sieve theory. He held a temporary chair at the University of Göttingen and then a newly created chair at the University of Marburg. In 1972 he moved to the University of Ulm, where he remained until his retirement in 1991.
He died on November 25, 1993 in Blaustein, near Ulm, Germany.