Luisa Landová-Štychová

Luisa Landová-Štychová (31 January 1885 – 31 August 1969) was a Czechoslovak politician, feminist, educator and astronomer. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography Landová-Štychová was born Aloisie Vorlíčková in Ratboř in 1885, the daughter of a bakery owner. She was educated at a monastic school and attended a business academy. She attempted to pass a law legalising abortion, but was unable to gain sufficient support. Tensions between the anarcho-communists and original National Social party members festered, and in March 1923 Landová-Štychová and three others were expelled from the party for failing to vote for a law for the protection of the republic. She was subsequently stripped of her seat in the Chamber in June.

The expelled anarcho-communists formed the Independent Socialist Workers Party, and Landová-Štychová represented the party on Prague City Council as a replacement for Bohuslav Vrbenský. The new party merged into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1925 and she was elected back to the Chamber of Deputies in the November 1925 elections, serving in parliament until 1929. 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 . From 1952 she was vice president of the Czechoslovak Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge, and in 1959 she was appointed an honorary member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. She died in Prague in 1969.