Ida Laura Pfeiffer
Videos
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 languag
Ida Pfeiffer, photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl
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"
Ida Pfeiffer dressed for a collection foray with an insect net and a specimen container slung over her shoulder (lithograph by Adolf Dauthage).
Alexander von Humboldt
Videos
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
…Franz Josef Trimmel. She developed a strong interest in travel narratives, particularly Robinson Crusoe, and in the scientific writings of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Pfeiffer would later meet Humboldt in Berlin. On 1 May 1820, at the age of twenty-two, she married Dr. Mark Anton Pfeiffer, a forty-six-year-old lawyer…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (1843)
Schloss Tegel, Berlin, where Alexander and his brother Wilhelm lived for several years
Schiller, Wilhelm, and Alexander von Humboldt with Goethe in Jena
Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806