Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková

Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková (17 January 1877, Prague – 29 September 1937, Čelákovice) was the first female Czech botanist and zoologist.

[1][2][3][4] Baborová was born in Prague in a school teacher's family and learned many languages at a young age.

She studied zoology and wrote her dissertation on fat bodies in the arthropods and in 1901 became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate.

An older brother Josef Florián Babor was also a physician and zoologist at the University.

She contributed entries on infusoria and protozoa for Otto's Encyclopedia.