Dr thomas masaryk biography
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President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk
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In månad , there fled across the boundaries of Austria-Hungary a university professor, about whom it was rumoured that he corrupted the young; the political leader of the not numerous Progressive Party, whom no district in Bohemia would have elected to Parliament; a philosopher whose teachings were an evangel to some, but an abomination to most; a scholar recognised abroad who, nevertheless, at home was a member neither of t e Academy nor of the Learned Society—a man of disputed significance it was who fled. In December , this man returns home from exile in triumph as the first president of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, the sound of whose name thrills the hearts of the whole nation, from the borders of Bavaria to those of Roumania—whose name calls forth exultation and tears; in favour of whose election as head of the state the whole National Assembly arose with cheers as one man, all parties without exception; an
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President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is a leading personality in European history. He wrote himself into history, in fact, as a man who fought for the truth, a humanist, a philosopher and primarily a democratic politician and the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk became president in after four years spent abroad, where he actively fought for Czechoslovak independence. Although he was sixty-eight years old in , he immediately involved himself in the building of state policy. Masaryk’s main objective was to create a functioning democratic state. Working in the young republic was not easy and Masaryk expended a lot of his own energy on this, ensuring that within five years of its creation the Czechoslovak Republic had become a prosperous democratic state with a strong currency and a functioning economy. T. G. Masaryk won renown in a number of foreign countries and it was in large part thanks to him that Czechoslovakia was seen as
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Initial Citation: Tomáš G. Masaryk Papers USU_COLL MSS , Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
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The materials that comprise this collection were donated to USU Special Collections & Archives by Spencer L. Taggart in
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