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Ida Laura Pfeiffer

1797 - 1858

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer (14 October 1797, Vienna – 27 October 1858, Vienna), née Reyer, an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer, became a famous early female traveler; her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. She journeyed an estimated 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) by land and 240,000 kilometres (150,000 mi) by sea through Southeast Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa, and made two trips around the world between 1846 and 1855. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ida Laura Pfeiffer has received more than 100,501 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Ida Laura Pfeiffer is the 1,664th most popular writer (down from 1,603rd in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from Austria (down from 379th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Austrian Writer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 1,664 out of 5,755. Before her are Egon Kisch, Hipponax, Gaius Julius Solinus, Seamus Heaney, Wolfgang Borchert, and Hadewijch. After her are Walafrid Strabo, Vicki Baum, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Antonio de Nebrija, Ahad Ha'am, and Ivan Klíma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 28. Before her are Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Manuela Sáenz, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Carlo Blasis, and Sojourner Truth. After her are Giuditta Pasta, Kamehameha II, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Wilhelm Beer, and Antonio Rosmini. Among people deceased in 1858, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 25. Before her are Harriet Taylor Mill, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Joseph Karl Stieler, Tokugawa Iesada, Henry Darcy, and Nimatullah Kassab. After her are Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Felice Orsini, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Rachel Félix, and Johann Baptist Cramer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 400 out of 1,237. Before her are Herbert Bayer (1900), Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Frederick I, Duke of Austria (1175), Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (1249), Adam Rainer (1899), and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774). After her are Vicki Baum (1888), Otto Wächter (1901), Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (1876), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690), and Friedrich von Amerling (1803).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 32. Before her are Joseph Mohr (1792), Peter Altenberg (1859), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Raul Hilberg (1926), and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774). After her are Vicki Baum (1888), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Hermann Bahr (1863), Johann Nestroy (1801), Gitta Sereny (1921), and Johannes Mario Simmel (1924).

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