Angela Piskernik

Piskernik was born in Bad Eisenkappel in Southern Carinthia, which remained with Austria after the First World War, and held a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Vienna.

As a nationally conscious Slovene woman, she was active in the Carinthian plebiscite and in a club of migrants.

[3] She is mentioned in the autobiographic novel "Angel of Oblivion" by the Austrian author Maja Haderlap.

[4] After 1945 she became director of the Museum of Natural History in Ljubljana and worked in the conservation service.

[5] In particular, she made efforts to renew and protect the Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden and Triglav National Park.