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Angela Piskernik (27 August 1886 – 23 December 1967) was an Austro-Yugoslav botanist and conservationist. == Biography == Piskernik was born in Bad Eisenkappel in Southern Carinthia, which remained with Austria after the First World War, and held a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Vienna.〔Tina Bahovec (2010), ''Engendering Borders: The Austro-Yugoslav Border Conflict Following the First World War'', in: Agatha Schwartz (Ed.), ''Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy'', University of Ottawa Press, ISBN 978-0-7766-0726-9, pp. 219–234.〕 She worked for the provincial museum in Ljubljana and taught in various secondary schools. As a nationally conscious Slovene woman, she was active in the Carinthian plebiscite and in a club of migrants.〔Danijel Grafenauer (2009): (''Carinthian Slovenes´ Clubs and the Contacts between Carinthian Slovenes and Slovene-American Politicians'' ), in: Matjaž Klemenčič, Mary N. Harris (Eds.) ''European migrants, diasporas and indigenous ethnic minorities'', Edizioni Plus-Pisa University Press, ISBN 978-88-8492-653-1, pp. 83–103〕 In 1943 she was imprisoned and detained in the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrück.〔Janez Stergar (2004): (''Dr. Angela Piskernik (1886–1967), Natural Scientist, Environmentalist, and Nationally Conscious Activist from Carinthia'' ) (Abstract in English), Institute of Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana. Retrieved October 31, 2013.〕 After 1945 she became director of the Museum of Natural History in Ljubljana and worked in the conservation service.〔Mateja Tominšek Perovšek (2012): (''Slovene Women in the Modern Era'' ) (Exhibition Catalogue), National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, pp. 63–64〕 In particular, she made efforts to renew and protect the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden that was later incorporated into the Triglav National Park.〔(''Juliana after 1945'' ). Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana. Retrieved November 19, 2013.〕〔Vito Hazler (2010): (''Protection and Presentation of Cultural Heritage in the Triglav National Park and in Regional and Landscape parks in Slovenia'' ), Etnološka istraživanja (Ethnological Researches), Vol. 1 No. 15, pp. 53–67〕 In the 1960s she headed the Yugoslav delegation of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) and proposed a transnational nature park with Austria in the Savinja Alps and Karawanks. The bilateral park was, however, never realized.〔Carolin Firouzeh Roeder (2012), ''Slovenia's Triglav National Park: From Imperial Borderland to National Ethnoscape'', in: Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper (Eds.), ''Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective'', Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, ISBN 978-0-85745-525-3, pp. 240–255.〕 She died in 1967 in Ljubljana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angela Piskernik」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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