Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president (1850-1937) · Czechia · Politicians · Died at 87
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Something wrong?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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101214 Langhans Vystava Praha Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 1919 negativ
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16-10-23, arrivée de M. Massaryck à Paris, Millerand et Massaryck (i.e. Masaryk, avec les généraux Hergault et Lasson) - (photographie de presse) - (Agence Rol)
16-10-23, M. Masaryk au tombeau du soldat inconnu avec Foch
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17-10-23, MM. Millerand et Masaryck (sic) à la station de TSF de Ste Assise - btv1b53119770fIn their own words 5
, It redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery.
Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.
A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.
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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 backing through the Washington Declaration. When Austria-Hungary collapsed that autumn, the Allies recognized the new republic and Masaryk as its provisional leader. Elected president in November, he was returned three more times and presided over a stable, democratic interwar state. He stepped down in 1935 at eighty-five, retired to Lány, and died two years later.
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