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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president (1850–1937)

  • Fame68.0
  • Momentum17.8
  • Wikipedia15.8K
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Lived 1850–1937, aged 87
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  • Era
    1850–1937
    Aged 87
  • Known for
    Za svobodu národa
    1920
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

A philosophy professor turned wartime exile who talked a country into existence. Masaryk spent 1914–1918 crisscrossing Europe and America, lobbying Allied powers to carve Czechoslovakia out of the Habsburg wreckage—then served as its first president for seventeen years.

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Born in Moravia in 1850 when it still belonged to the Austrian Empire, Masaryk earned a doctorate in Vienna and settled into teaching philosophy at Prague's Charles-Ferdinand University. He entered politics as a deputy in the Austrian Reichsrat, initially pushing to reform Austria-Hungary into a federation. By 1914 he'd abandoned reform for separation: he fled into exile and spent the war organizing the Czechoslovak Legion and making the case for independence in every capital that would hear him. In 1918 he and his protégés Edvard Beneš and Milan Rastislav Štefánik secured Woodrow Wilson's bac…

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[I]t redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery.
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Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.
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A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.
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Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy.
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War is not the greatest evil, though it is an evil.
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