Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Ida Laura Pfeiffer (14 October 1797,
Vienna – 27 October 1858, Vienna), 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 by land and 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 Berlin and Paris, she was denied membership by the
Royal Geographical Society in
London as it forbade the election of women before 1913.
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