- Geboren am
- Verstorben3. Januar 1980 · Shaba National Reserve, Kenia (Messerstecherei)
- GeburtsnameFriederike Viktoria Gessner
- Spitzname
- Fifi
- Joy Adamson wurde am 20 Januar 1910 in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [ora Opava, Czech Republic] geboren. Sie war Autorin, bekannt für Born Free (1998), Königin der Wildnis (1966) und Drei Strolche in der Wildnis (1972). Sie war mit George Adamson, Peter René Oscar Bally und Victor Isidor Ernst Ritter von Klarwill verheiratet. Sie starb am 3 Januar 1980 in Kenia.
- EhepartnerGeorge Adamson(17. Januar 1944 - 3. Januar 1980) (sie verstorben)Peter René Oscar Bally(4. Juli 1938 - 1943) (geschieden)Victor Isidor Ernst Ritter von Klarwill(28. Juli 1935 - 1937) (geschieden)
- British naturalist and writer, born in Austria. She lived in Kenya from 1937, studying and painting wildlife, native tribesmen and plants. Famously, she was the author of "Born Free" (1960) and its sequels "Elsa" (1961), "Forever Free" (1962) and "Elsa and her Cubs" (1965). A tireless campaigner for wildlife conservation, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art in 1977. Three years later, she was murdered by a discharged former employee.
- Separated from George in 1970, but continued to spend Christmases with him.
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