A Remarkable Biography

Authors

  • Andrea Rönz Bonn, Leiterin Stadtarchiv Linz am Rhein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/330

Keywords:

Biografie, Neuzeit, Reisen, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

The Viennese born Ida Pfeiffer began undertaking research expeditions at the age of 44, after both of her sons were grown up. In the 16 years that followed, the trips led her first to the Holy Land and then finally two times around the world. The published travel reports were widely popular in the contemporary public and the collections brought back from the journeys constituted an enrichment for science. Despite this remarkable female biography for the mid-19th Century, in her writings Ida Pfeiffer remained a proponent for bourgeois morals and ideals. Gabriele Habinger made it her task to illuminate this contrasting character.

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Published

2005-03-03

Issue

No. 15 (2005): Offenes Heft

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2005 Andrea Rönz

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