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. In 2018, a documentary film about Textorisová's life, titled Rande s Belkou, was produced by CSTISR and broadcast by RTVS in 2020.
See also Timeline of women in science
References
External links Media related to Izabela Textorisová at Wikimedia Commons
Izabela Textorisová profile on botany.cz (in Slovak) Rande s Belkou on YouTube