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Isabelle Eberhardt

1877 - 1904

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Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt (17 February 1877 – 21 October 1904) was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. After an invitation from photographer Louis David, Eberhardt moved to Algeria in May 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isabelle Eberhardt is the 166th most popular explorer (down from 159th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 181st in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 166 out of 498. Before her are Cornelis de Houtman, Adrien de Gerlache, Gaspar de Portolá, Enrique of Malacca, Otto Sverdrup, and Emin Pasha. After her are Fernão do Pó, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and Paulo da Gama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 54. Before her are Edmund Landau, Otto Gross, Sadao Araki, Wilhelm Adam, Charles Rolls, and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria. After her are Raymond Roussel, Vladimir Minorsky, Léon Flameng, Renée Vivien, Petar Kočić, and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. Among people deceased in 1904, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 35. Before her are Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Nikolay Bobrikov, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Isabella Bird, Kartini, and Antonio Labriola. After her are Mór Jókai, Clemens Winkler, Herbert von Bismarck, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Wilhelm Marr, and Franz von Lenbach.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 186 out of 1,015. Before her are Louis of Cyprus (1436), Anton Graff (1736), Marc Allégret (1900), Marina Doria (1935), Kurt Huber (1893), and Werner Leimgruber (1934). After her are Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Jonas Furrer (1805), Michel Simon (1895), Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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Among EXPLORERS In Switzerland

Among explorers born in Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt ranks 1. After her are Bertrand Piccard (1958).

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