Jenny Visser-Hooft

Jenny Visser-Hooft
Philips Visser, the Ambaan, Jenny Hooft and Jérôme Sillem
Born18 June 1888
Kensington
Died16 September 1939(1939-09-16) (aged 51)
Ankara
NationalityDutch
Occupation(s)Traveler, Mountaineer, Writer, Photographer
Known forFlora and fauna research in Pakistan and India
SpousePhilips 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]

  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.