Izabela Textorisová

Izabela Textorisová
Bust of Izabela Textorisová
Born(1866-03-16)16 March 1866
Ratková, Gömör and Kishont County, Kingdom of Hungary
Died12 September 1949(1949-09-12) (aged 83)
Krupina, Czechoslovakia
Resting placeNational Cemetery in Martin
Known forDiscovery of Carduus textorisianus (thistle)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Izabela Textorisová (16 March 1866, Ratková – 12 September 1949, Krupina) was Slovakia's first female botanist. Her copious herbarium, stored at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, is a valuable resource for botanists to this day. She described more than a hundred new plants in the Turiec region. In 1893, she discovered a new species of thistle, later named Carduus textorisianus Marg. in her honor.

A main-belt asteroid, discovered in 2000 by Peter Kušnirák, was also named in her honor.[1][2][3][4]

In 2018, a documentary film about Textorisová's life, titled Rande s Belkou, was produced by CSTISR and broadcast by RTVS in 2020.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Textorisová, Izabella (1866-1944)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Izabela Textorisová". osobnosti.sk (in Slovak). Občianske združenie Osobnosti.sk. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Izabela Textorisová – Portrait and Work". In botany she became a renowned and acknowledged expert, particularly in the flora of Turiec. She collected and classified plants, and exchanged specimens with many leading authorities. In 1913 she published the results of her work in the journal Botanikai Kozeményiek under the title "Flora Data from the County of Turiec", setting out more than a hundred plants whose presence in Turiec had previously passed unrecorded.
  5. ^ "Z tvorby nezávislých producentov – dokument (Svetoznámi slovenskí vedci: Rande s Belkou)" [From the work of independent producers – documentary (World-famous Slovak scientists: Date with Belka)]. rtvs.sk (in Slovak). 17 August 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2023.

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