Ida Laura Pfeiffer

Ida Laura Pfeiffer is an exploring Austrian, born the October 14th 1797 with Vienna and dead the October 27th 1858 in this same city.

It is the girl of a merchant named Reyer. In 1820, it Marie with Doctor Pfeiffer, a lawyer of Lemberg, which undergoes later a persecution by the government and was tiny room to poverty. Ida Pfeiffer undertakes in 1842 to visit the Palestine and the Egypt. She makes appear the account of her voyage under the title of Reise einer Wienerin in das Heilige Land (Vienna, 1843). In 1845, it visits the Scandinavia and the Iceland which will be the object, in 1846, of its book Reise nach dein skandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island (Pest).

In 1846, it leaves for a round the world tour which takes it along to the Brésil, to the Chile and in other countries South America, with Tahiti, in China, India, Perse, minor Asia and Greece. It returns to Vienna in 1848 and makes appear in this city, two years later, Eine Frau fährt um die Welt .

In 1851, it goes in Great Britain then again to South America. It tries to explore the interior of the continent but without success. It goes then in the Malay Archipelago and spends eight month in the islands of the Probe and the Moluques. She visits after the Australia, connects with the California, the Oregon, the Peru, the Ecuador, the News-Grenade and the north of the area of the Big lakes, and returns to Austria in 1854.

Its account appears in Vienna in 1856 under the title of Meine zweite Weltreise . In May of the same year, it leaves to explore Madagascar, where it is cordially received by the queen. She finds herself implied in an coup attempt of State and is expelled of the country. Its account posthumously appears by the care of his/her son in 1861, in Vienna, under the title of Reise nach Madagascar .

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