# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaclav-laska
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:31:47.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaclav-laska"
name: "Václav Láska"
slug: "vaclav-laska"
description: "Václav Jan Láska was a Czech geodesist, astronomer, geophysicist and mathematician. He was based mainly at Charles University, and was the founding director (1920–1933) of the State Institute of Geophysics, which later became the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Czech astronomist, surveyor and mathematician (1862–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A1ska_V%C3%A1clav01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-08-24"
deathDate: "1943-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           4.601044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "فاتسلاف لاسكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_L%C3%A1ska_(v%C4%9Bdec)"
    title: "Václav Láska (vědec)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_L%C3%A1ska_(mathematician)"
    title: "Václav Láska (mathematician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_L%C3%A1ska"
    title: "Václav Láska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Вацлав Ласка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3495509"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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