Izabela Textorisová | |
Birth Date: | 16 March 1866 |
Birth Place: | Ratková, Gömör and Kishont County, Kingdom of Hungary |
Death Place: | Krupina, Czechoslovakia |
Resting Place: | National Cemetery in Martin |
Fields: | Botany |
Known For: | Discovery of Carduus textorisianus (thistle) |
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]