Johann Gottfried Bremser – Visceral Organs’ Worms

Napoleon didn’t succeed in stealing the Viennese visceral organs’ worms!
Bremser would have deserved such an appreciative headline. In 1809 the „Worm Medical Doctor“ prevented the plundering of the then worldwide largest helminths’ collection during the occupation of Vienna in the United Imperial and Royal Natural History Cabinets the predecessor of the today Natural History Museum.

Ida Peiffer – Freedom

Female, 45, completing dreams, restless. 1842 – 1858. What a woman! The „first female world traveller and the first female explorer during Biedermeier„. [1] The Viennese Pfeiffer travels on her journeys „240,000 km at sea and approx. 32,000 km overland“. [2] These journeys are ethnologic and zoological expeditions. Ida learns languages, is able to dissect animals and plants. She is sociable and through contacts with diplomats and life peesr she finds