Alma Karlin

Alma Karlin was born on 12 October 1889 in Celje, in Styria, then Austrian. A polyglot, she learned some ten languages, including Esperanto, and compiled her own ten-language dictionary. Back in January 1928 from a round-the-world journey of more than eight years, she brought home more than eight hundred objects, now kept in the regional museum of Celje. She wrote travel narratives and novels in German, among them Im Banne der Südsee. She died in Pečovnik, near Celje, on 14 January 1950.

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• NarrativeThe Odyssey of a Lonely WomanEinsame WeltreiseAlma Karlin · 1929Literature