# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ladislav-zgusta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:15:11.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ladislav-zgusta"
name: "Ladislav Zgusta"
slug: "ladislav-zgusta"
description: "Ladislav Zgusta was a Czech-American historical linguist, lexicologist, and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography. After working as a laborer and a railroad employee in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Zgusta earned several doctorates from Czech universities. Threatened with detention during the Prague Spring, his family escaped to the United States through India while posing as tourists, with assistance from the American embassy in New Delhi and the support of his colleagues in the United States."
tagline: "Czech linguist (1924–2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Ladislav_Zgusta.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-03-20"
deathDate: "2007-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.469906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Zgusta"
    title: "Ladislav Zgusta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Zgusta"
    title: "Ladislav Zgusta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Zgusta"
    title: "Ladislav Zgusta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Zgusta"
    title: "Ladislav Zgusta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%B2%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "لادیسلاو زگوستا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Zgusta"
    title: "Ladislav Zgusta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1755374"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump