Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková was the first female Czech botanist and zoologist. Baborová was born in Prague to a school teacher's family and learned many languages at a young age. She studied at the Minerva secondary school before studying natural sciences at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. She studied zoology and wrote her dissertation on fat bodies in 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. Josef had inspired her own studies but she worked under Frantisek Vejdovsky (1849–1939). She contributed entries on infusoria and protozoa for Otto's Encyclopedia. Baborová married Stanislav Ćihak in 1903. She cut back on her studies in 1906 after the birth of her daughter.
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (born 1877)
On September 29, in the year 1937, Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (born 1877). This event is recorded as a Notable Deaths event in the history of September 29, one of 461 recorded events on this date across all of history.
1 notable person is associated with this event, including Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková. Learn more below.
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