Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler

{{Short description|Brazilian professor (1959-2009)}}

Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler (June 20, 1959 – June 1, 2009) was a Brazilian professor of German studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.{{cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL1178824-5602,00.html|title=Outro professor da UFRJ também está entre os passageiros do voo AF 447|publisher= globo.com|date=1 June 2009|accessdate=2011-04-05|language=Portuguese}} Patrik von zur Mühlen described her as the foremost specialist on German language writers and editors exiled in Brazil during the Nazi-era.[http://www.exilforschung.de/_dateien/neuer-nachrichtenbrief/NNB33.pdf "Zum Tode von Izabela Furtado Kestler"] (in German) by Patrik von zur Mühlen (editor), at www.exilforschung.de. Newsletter, June 2009, p.16. Accessed 2011-04-16.[http://www.casastefanzweig.org/sec_news_list.php?language=en&id=80#in "In memoriam Izabela Kestler"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725144837/http://www.casastefanzweig.org/sec_news_list.php?language=en&id=80#in |date=2011-07-25 }} (www.exilforschung.de. Newsletter article in English) at casastefanzweig.org. Accessed 2011-04-16. From 1998, she was editor-in-chief of forum deutsch, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Germânicos, a publication of the Association of Professors of German of Rio de Janeiro.[http://www.apario.com.br/forumdeutsch/ forum deutsch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904044427/http://www.apario.com.br/forumdeutsch/ |date=2011-09-04 }} at apario.com.br. Accessed 2011-04-05.

Kestler was killed on board Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009.[http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/cidades,perfil-de-izabela-maria-furtado-kestler,380677,0.htm Profile at estado.com.br] in Portuguese. Accessed 2011-04-05. Her family donated her library of exile-related materials to the Casa Stefan Zweig in Brazil.[http://www.casastefanzweig.org/index.php "Collection Izabela Kestler"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722023823/http://www.casastefanzweig.org/index.php |date=2011-07-22 }} at casastefanzweig.org. Accessed 2011-04-05.