Izabela Textorisová

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.

Izabela Textorisová
Bust of Izabela Textorisová
Born	(1866-03-16)16 March 1866 Ratková, Gömör and Kishont County, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	12 September 1949(1949-09-12) (aged 83) Krupina, Czechoslovakia
Resting place	National Cemetery in Martin
Known for	Discovery of Carduus textorisianus (thistle)
Scientific career
Fields	Botany

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]

See also

• Timeline of women in science