The Carinthian botanist, Angela Piskernik (27.8.1886, Lobnik, - 23.12.1967, Ljubljana), one of the first university educated Slovenian women, was recognised internationally as a natural scientist, educator, and environmentalist. Between 1916 and 1926 she worked for the provincial museum in Ljubljana; after that she taught at a secondary school, spent the years between 1943 and 1945 in prison and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, only to work again in the museum and conservation service after the war. She wrote about the ethnography and cultural history of Carinthia, and published German language handbooks. From her student years she was a nationally conscious activist (in Carinthia before the referendum of 10 October 1920, and afterwards in central Slovenia). Between the world wars she was active in Catholic women's organizations. Her letters and contemporaries' memoirs reveal that her beauty and wit made her a friend or "muse" to several famous Slovenians, but she never married.