Ida Laura Pfeiffer
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Ida Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, a famous early female Austrian professional traveler who became an explorer, ethnographer, and travel writer; her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages.
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Image extracted from page 169 of Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North (Second edition), by PFEIFFER, Ida Laura. Original held and digitized by the British Library.![Illustration from "The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and her Travels in many Lands"[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Pfeiffer_Madras.jpg/500px-Pfeiffer_Madras.jpg)
Illustration from "The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and her Travels in many Lands"[12]
Trial of Ida Pfeiffer and Jean Laborde
Ida Pfeiffer dressed for a collection foray with an insect net and a specimen container slung over her shoulder(lithograph by Adolf Dauthage).
Grave of Ida Pfeiffer, Vienna, 2017Historical Figures born in the 1790s 6
About this person
Ida Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, a famous early female Austrian professional traveler who became an explorer, ethnographer, and travel writer; 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. Though a member of the geographical societies of both Paris and Berlin, she was denied membership by the Royal Geographical Society in London as it forbade the election of women before 1913.
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