Richard Buchta

Richard Buchta
Richard Buchta, 1880
Born19 January 1845 
Radlow, Austrian Empire
Died29 July 1894  (aged 49)
Vienna, Austrian Empire
OccupationPhotographer, writer, traveler, painter, drawer, ethnologist 
Years active1870s–1890s
Known forTravelogues and photographs of 19th-century Sudan

Richard Buchta (Austrian German: [ˈrɪçard ˈbʊxta]; 19 January 1845 – 29 July 1894) was an Austrian explorer in East Africa, travel writer, painter and photographer. Born in Radlow, Galicia, in the Austrian Empire, he traveled widely, first to Germany, France as well as the Balkans, and later also to Turkey, Egypt and the Sudan. Upon his return to Germany and later to Austria, he published several books on the geography, ethnic groups and political conditions of Sudan in the 1870s and 1880s. His historical photographs, taken mainly in southern Sudan, have been regarded as the earliest photographs of ethnic people living along the White Nile and beyond.

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