Jenny Visser-Hooft

Jenny Visser-Hooft
Philips Visser, the Ambaan, Jenny Hooft and Jérôme Sillem
Born 18 June 1888
Kensington
Died September 16, 1939(1939-09-16) (aged 51)
Ankara
Nationality Dutch
Occupation Traveler, Mountaineer, Writer, Photographer
Known for Flora and fauna research in Pakistan and India
Spouse(s) Philips Christiaan Visser

Jenny Visser-Hooft (née Jkvr Jeannette Hooft 18 June 1888, Kensington - 16 September 1939, Ankara) was a Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer known for the flora and fauna research she did in the 1920s with her husband, Philips Christiaan Visser, in Pakistan and India's Karakorum Glaciers region.[1]

Visser-Hooft was the daughter of Jhr Maurits Wijnand Hendrik Hooft and Jeannette Henriëtte Grader van der Maas, and was a descendant of P.C. Hooft.[2] She married the geographer and diplomat Philips Visser (1882-1955) in 1912 in The Hague. She was a member of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society, and of the Dutch Alpine Club, as well as serving as Vice-President of the Ladies' Alpine Club.[3] Her archives and bust, sculpted by Fransje Carbasius, are held by the Royal Tropical Institute, while her expeditionary negatives and photographs are located at the Tropenmuseum.[4]

Selected works

  • Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925 (1926)

References

  1. ↑ Netzley 2001, p. 221.
  2. ↑ Hooft, Jeanette at the P.C. Hooft Family Tree website
  3. ↑ Visser & Visser 1926, p. III.
  4. ↑ Wieringa 2008, p. 53.

Bibliography

  • Netzley, Patricia D. (1 January 2001). The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration. Oryx Press. ISBN 978-1-57356-238-6.
  • Visser, Jeannette Hooft; Visser, Philips Christiaan (1926). Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925. E. Arnold & Company.
  • Wieringa, Saskia (2008). Traveling Heritages: New Perspecitves on Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Women's History. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-5260-299-8.
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