Joy Adamson

Also known as Friederike Adamson, Joy-Friederike Victoria Adamson, Frederika Viktorie Gressnerová, Friederike von Klarwill, Joy Bally, Joy Adamsonova, Friederike Gessner, Friederike Victoria Gessner

Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1910
Died: 1980
Works: 79

Top works

Born Free
Elsa's Vrije Leven - De Leeuwin Die Het Mensenhart Vond
Born Free, a Lioness of Two Worlds
Forever free
Pippa, the cheetah, and her cubs

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Film & TV

Writing · Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Description above from the…

Known for

Elsa the Lioness — Self1961
Fcb TV Show No.1 — Women1955
R.U.R. — Sulla, a robotess1948

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1958-06-11

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12
Total plays: 43

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Elements of Information Theory
· 2001 · cited 16,776x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,432x
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans
· 2015 · cited 4,817x
The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome
· 2013 · cited 4,559x

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Quotes

“Only one thing is certain. People get out of life exactly what they put into it.”
“I well remember the time, after the First World War, when one needed a tillion-mark note to buy a dozen eggs. Since paper, however, was still valuable, the bank notes were stored in gigantic silos which stood in the yards of our factories. In these we children made tunnels and played among the billions and trillions — a strange introduction to money, but perhaps it helped me to realize how worthless it can become when man-made values change.”
“Millions of people had been uprooted by the war and could not adapt themselves to a new way of life. On the other hand, certain people had grown rich and powerful.”

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Key facts

Born: Friederike Victoria Gessner , ( 1910-01-20 ) 20 January 1910, Troppau, Austrian Silesia , Austria-Hungary (now Opava , Czech Republic)
Died: 3 January 1980 (1980-01-03) (aged 69), Shaba National Reserve, Kenya
Cause of death: Homicide
Resting place: Meru National Park
Occupations: Naturalist Artist Author
Language: English
Period: 1960–1980
Genre: Nonfiction
Subjects: Animals, African culture, nature
Years active: 1960–1980
Notable work: Born Free

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Wikidata facts

Image: JoyAdamsonÉsElza.jpg

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Commons category: Joy Adamson
date of birth: 1910-01-20
date of death: 1980-01-03
birth name: Friederike Victoria Gessner
start of work period: 1960-00-00
nickname: Joy
P6944: Joy Adamson
name in native language: Joy Adamson

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Article

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award–winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

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