Jenny Visser-Hooft

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

Jenny Visser-Hooft in 1926

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 [nl], 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.

Sources

• 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 Perspectives on Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Women's History. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-5260-299-8.

External links

• Media related to Jenny Visser-Hooft at Wikimedia Commons