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Isabelle Eberhardt

1877 - 1904

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Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt (17 February 1877 – 21 October 1904) was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isabelle Eberhardt has received more than 476,487 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Isabelle Eberhardt is the 159th most popular explorer (down from 127th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 142nd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 159 out of 498. Before her are Rodrigo de Triana, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Gan Ying, Gaspar de Lemos, Alexandrine Tinné, and Ahmad ibn Rustah. After her are Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, St John Philby, Ruy López de Villalobos, and Gustav Nachtigal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 49. Before her are Sadao Araki, Raymond Roussel, Edmund Landau, Petar Kočić, Charles Rolls, and Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. After her are Herbert Pitman, Garrett Morgan, Edmond Locard, Vladimir Minorsky, Wilhelm Adam, and Jesse Livermore. Among people deceased in 1904, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 38. Before her are Kartini, Mór Jókai, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Antonio Labriola, Wilhelm Marr, and Herbert von Bismarck. After her are Jamsetji Tata, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Clemens Winkler, Franz von Lenbach, Eugen Schauman, and Korla Awgust Kocor.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 181 out of 1,015. Before her are Frithjof Schuon (1907), Jo Siffert (1936), Arthur Cohn (1927), Viola Amherd (1962), Notker the Stammerer (840), and Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803). After her are Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Joanna of Pfirt (1300), DJ BoBo (1968), Jonas Furrer (1805), Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), and Billy Meier (1937).

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Among EXPLORERS In Switzerland

Among explorers born in Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 1. After her are Bertrand Piccard (1958).

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