Luisa Landová-Štychová

Luisa Landová-Štychová (31 January 1885 – 31 August 1969) was a Czechoslovak politician, feminist, educator and astronomer.

Together with Štych, she co-founded the atheist and social democratic Union of Socialist Monists in 1913, which was banned during World War I.

Landová-Štychová was involved in organising a general strike for 14 October 1918, which turned into a mass pro-independence demonstration.

[1] She attempted to pass a law legalising abortion, but was unable to gain sufficient support.

After World War II her political activity largely ceased and she became more deeply involved with the Czechoslovak Astronomical Society, becoming vice chair of its committee in 1945 and serving on the editorial board of the astronomy magazine Říše hvězd [cs].