WRITER

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 108,038 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ida Laura Pfeiffer is the 1,338th most popular writer (up from 1,660th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 400th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Austrian Writer.

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  • 59.48

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  • 30

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  • 6.79

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  • 2.52

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Notable Works

A lady's voyage round the world
1851
Eine Frauenfahrt um die Welt
1850
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Voyages around the world
1852
The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer
Description and travel
1861
Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Description and travel
1852
A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Description and travel, History and criticism, Old Norse poetry
1852
A lady's second journey round the world
Voyages around the world
1855
A journey to Iceland and travels in Sweden and Norway
Description and travel
1852
Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Description and travel
1852
A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Description and travel, History and criticism, Old Norse poetry
1852
The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer
Description and travel
1861
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Voyages around the world
1852
A journey to Iceland and travels in Sweden and Norway
Description and travel
1852
A lady's second journey round the world
Voyages around the world
1855

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 1,338 out of 7,302. Before her are Allan Pinkerton, Władysław Tarnowski, Catherine de Bourbon, Yan Fu, Callinus, and Christine Nöstlinger. After her are Sergey Mikhalkov, Chernorizets Hrabar, Maria Shriver, Kurt Tucholsky, Henri Murger, and Nadezhda Mandelstam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 23. Before her are Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Carlo Blasis, and Sojourner Truth. After her are Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Manuela Sáenz, Giuditta Pasta, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry. Among people deceased in 1858, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 18. Before her are Aimé Bonpland, Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. After her are Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Harriet Taylor Mill, Princess Margaretha of Saxony, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Tokugawa Iesada.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 322 out of 1,424. Before her are Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921), Gerhard Berger (1959), Lotte Lenya (1898), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), and Hans Makart (1840). After her are Robert Adler (1913), Camillo Sitte (1843), Martin Karplus (1930), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Peter Fendi (1796), and Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (1628).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ida Laura Pfeiffer ranks 24. Before her are Franz Grillparzer (1791), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Božena Němcová (1820), Miep Gies (1909), August Kubizek (1888), and Christine Nöstlinger (1936). After her are Joseph Mohr (1792), Vicki Baum (1888), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Peter Altenberg (1859), Hermann Bahr (1863), and Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824).

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