Izabela Textorisová
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Born16 March 1866
Ratková, Gömör and Kishont County, Kingdom of Hungary
Died12 September 1949 (aged 83)
Resting place
National Cemetery in MartinKnownforDiscovery of Carduus textorisianus (thistle)
Izabela Textorisová | |
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 Bust of Izabela Textorisová | |
| Born | 16 March 1866 Ratková, Gömör and Kishont County, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 12 September 1949 (aged 83) |
Resting place | National Cemetery in Martin |
| Known for | Discovery of Carduus textorisianus (thistle) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
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]
