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Alexandrine Tinné

1835 - 1869

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Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandrine Tinné has received more than 53,723 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alexandrine Tinné is the 157th most popular explorer (up from 230th in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 389th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 157 out of 498. Before her are Pêro da Covilhã, Pedro Mascarenhas, Rodrigo de Triana, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Gan Ying, and Gaspar de Lemos. After her are Ahmad ibn Rustah, Isabelle Eberhardt, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, and St John Philby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 35. Before her are Mendele Mocher Sforim, Alexander Agassiz, Simon Newcomb, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After her are Tomás Estrada Palma, Christian Otto Mohr, Eugenio Beltrami, Raffi, John Hughlings Jackson, and Grigory Potanin. Among people deceased in 1869, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 17. Before her are Thomas Graham, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Carl Loewe, and Alexander Dargomyzhsky. After her are Roger Fenton, Carl Gustav Carus, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, John A. Roebling, and Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 284 out of 1,646. Before her are Geert Groote (1340), Jan de Bont (1943), Philippa of Guelders (1464), Pieter van Laer (1599), Frank de Boer (1970), and Erwin Koeman (1961). After her are Titus van Rijn (1641), Arnold Houbraken (1660), Wim Hof (1959), Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798), Sicco Mansholt (1908), and Floris IV, Count of Holland (1210).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 9. Before her are Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Frederick de Houtman (1571), Jacob Roggeveen (1659), Willem Schouten (1567), Willem Janszoon (1570), and Cornelis de Houtman (1565). After her are Anthony van Diemen (1593), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), Olivier van Noort (1558), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), and Dirk Hartog (1580).

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