Vlasta Havelková

Vlasta Havelková (; 16 December 1857 – 16 June 1939) was a Czech ethnographer, archaeologist and collector of folk embroidery. She was member of the Olomouc Ethnographic Society and custodian of the Náprstek Museum in Prague.

Biography Havelková was born on 16 December 1857 in Blansko, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now in the Czech Republic). She was the second youngest of the four daughters born to Jindřich Wankel, a palaeontologist and archaeologist known as the "father of Moravian archaeology", and his wife (née Šímová), an ethnographer and national revivalist. Her sisters were Karla Absolonová-Bufková, writer and folklorist; Lucie Bakešová, folklorist and social activist; and , writer and feminist.

Havelková was educated at municipal school in Blansko, before studying at the , They had a daughter together called Milada, who became a still life painter and married a professor at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. Havelková was widowed in 1886. and was a member of the Olomouc Ethnographic Society.

Havelková died on 16 June 1939 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, aged 81.

Arne Novák called her the "Moravian grandmother of ethnography."