Angela Piskernik

Angela Piskernik ( born August 27, 1886 in Lobnig at Bath Iron Kappel, Carinthia, † December 23 1967 in Ljubljana) was an Austrian- Yugoslav botanist and conservationist.

Life and work

Piskernik attended the Teacher Training Institute of the Ursulines in Klagenfurt and a high school in Graz. She received her PhD in 1914 at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in natural sciences. She then worked in the Department of Botany of the National Museum in Ljubljana and taught natural history at several schools.

From 1945 to 1956 she was Director of the Natural History Museum in Ljubljana. In the field of nature protection, she sat down, inter alia, for renewal and preservation of alpine botanical garden Juliana and the establishment of the Triglav National Park in Slovenia.

In the 1960s she was delegate of Yugoslavia at the International CIPRA. In 1966, they proposed the creation of a transboundary nature park together with Austria in the Kamnik Alps and the Karawanken, but this was not realized.

Since study days, she joined in Carinthia for the rights of the Slovene minority. Following the referendum on 10 October 1920 she became involved in the "Club of Carinthian Slovenes in Ljubljana " and became its Vice- President. It also ran ethnographic research.

When a friend acted as a resistance fighter, she was arrested in 1943 by the Nazis and came to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. There, she wrote a collection of recipes that told interned women today.

The, also from Bath Iron Kappel writer Maja Haderlap mentioned in the novel Angels of forgetting their service to the preservation and publication of poems by prisoners of Slovenian poet Catherine Miklav.

Publications (selection)

  • The plasma compounds in mosses. (1914 ), Austrian botanical magazine 3/4, pp. 107-120 ( = dissertation, Note)
  • About the effect of fluorescent dyes on the germination of the seeds. (1921 ) Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Math and Science Class, Vol 130, Division 1, 6/ 7, pp. 189-214
  • Nature Conservation in Yugoslavia. (1967 ), Yearbook of the Association for the Protection of Alpine plants and animals, 32 year, pp. 118-131
  • Decades continuous efforts to Triglav National Park. In: Festschrift for the award of Van Tienhoven price of the FVS Foundation to Hamburg. Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1967 ), pp. 33-45
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