Masaryk, Thomas Garrigue#
b. Hodonín, Czech Republic (then Goeding), March 7, 1850, d. Lana near Prague (Czech Republic), Sept. 14, 1937, philosopher, sociologist, statesman. Studied at the University of Vienna, from 1882 Professor at the Czech University in Prague, 1891 to 1893 and 1907 to 1914 in the Austrian House of Delegates, 1914 emigrated to England and later to the USA. He prepared a national revolution of the Czechs (in the Czech Parliament 1916, in the Legion in Russia 1917) and was also able to win over the Slovaks to the idea of a common State in the Treaty of Pittsburgh in 1918. 1918 founded an exile government, 1918 to 1935 President of the Czech Republic.
Literature#
D. Truhlar, T. G. M. Philosophie der Demokratie, 1994; OeBL.