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Alexandrine Tinné

1835 - 1869

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Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne (17 October 1835 – 1 August 1869) was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. She was an early photographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandrine Tinné is the 153rd most popular explorer (up from 157th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 284th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 153 out of 498. Before her are Semyon Dezhnev, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Jean Chardin, Isabella Bird, Rodrigo de Triana, and Vladimir Arsenyev. After her are João da Nova, Ahmad ibn Rustah, Scylax of Caryanda, Martin Frobisher, Hans Staden, and Gil Eanes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 31. Before her are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Adolph Wagner, Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Sai Baba of Shirdi. After her are Shoqan Walikhanov, Simon Newcomb, Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Among people deceased in 1869, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 18. Before her are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. After her are Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Loewe, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Carl Reichenbach, and John A. Roebling.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 246 out of 1,646. Before her are Anton Geesink (1934), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1824), Jan Peter Balkenende (1956), Gemma Frisius (1508), and George Blake (1922). After her are Cornelis Drebbel (1572), Wim Suurbier (1945), Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577), Johann Weyer (1515), Nicolaes Maes (1634), and Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527).

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Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Alexandrine Tinné ranks 8. Before her are Willem Barentsz (1550), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Jacob Roggeveen (1659), Willem Schouten (1567), Willem Janszoon (1570), and Frederick de Houtman (1571). After her are Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), Anthony van Diemen (1593), Olivier van Noort (1558), and Willem de Vlamingh (1640).

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