biography
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Masaryk, Tomáš (Garrigue)
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pronunciation:
[masarik]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1850–1937)
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| biography:
| Founder-president of the Czechoslovakian Republic (1918–35), born in Hodonin, SE Czech Republic. He was a professor of philosophy in Prague (1882–1914), supported Czech national causes in parliament in Vienna (1891–3, 1907–14), and exposed as forgeries documents intended by the Habsburg authorities to discredit the political leaders of the Slav minorities. During World War 1 he worked with Beneš in London, where he became chairman of the Czech National Council, organizing the Czech independence movement. He was re-elected president on three occasions, before resigning in 1935 in favour of Beneš. |
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