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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

1850 - 1937

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, progressive political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia. Born in Hodonín, Moravia (then part of the Austrian Empire), Masaryk obtained a doctorate at the University of Vienna and was a professor of philosophy at the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk has received more than 623,423 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is the 599th most popular politician (up from 748th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 29th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Politician.

Tomáš garrigue masaryk was a Czechoslovak politician who helped found the Czechoslovakian state. He was the first president of Czechoslovakia.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ranks 599 out of 19,576Before him are Juliana of the Netherlands, Æthelstan, Aurelian, Didius Julianus, Christian IV of Denmark, and Hugo Chávez. After him are Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Alexander IV of Macedon, Jeroboam, Oleg of Novgorod, Constantius Chlorus, and Alija Izetbegović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ranks 4Before him are Jack the Ripper, Guy de Maupassant, and Robert Louis Stevenson. After him are Edward Smith, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, and Mihai Eminescu. Among people deceased in 1937, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ranks 12Before him are Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Erich Ludendorff, Amelia Earhart, and Lou Andreas-Salomé. After him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gerda Taro, and J. M. Barrie.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ranks 26 out of 1,200Before him are Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Kurt Gödel (1906), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Bertha von Suttner (1843), and Ernst Mach (1838). After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Forman (1932), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), and Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892).

Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ranks 2Before him are Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316). After him are Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), and Emil Hácha (1872).