# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zdenek-matejcek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:44.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zdenek-matejcek"
name: "Zdeněk Matějček"
slug: "zdenek-matejcek"
description: "Zdeněk Matějček was a Czech child psychologist, researcher, and childcare reformer, who pioneered the study of the institutional conditions of raising children in an environment of psychological deprivation. He was a significant reformer of child care, emphasising the irreplaceable role of the family. He was known for studies of the effects on children of being held in prison camps during World War II, was a co-founder and the first chairman of an association that involved animals, such as dogs and horses, in child therapy, and was the principal organizer of a meeting of the International Association for Research in Learning Disabilities, held in Prague on 2–5 October 1989. He placed 93rd on Největší Čech."
tagline: "Czech psychologist (1922-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photo_of_Professor_ZM.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-08-16"
deathDate: "2004-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.42016806722689
  historical:           5.271526666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Zdeněk Matějček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "زدينك ماتيجيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zdeněk Matějček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Mat%C4%9Bj%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Zdeněk Matějček"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Mat%C4%9Bj%C4%8Dek"
    title: "Zdeněk Matějček"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump