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5 unusual facts about Masaryk


Josef Haszpra

After the war ended, Haszpra could have resumed work and in 1947 he got the order to found a statue of T. G. Masaryk in Brandys nad Labem.

Kralupy nad Vltavou

Three bridges across the Vltava River are in the town - Masaryk Bridge (a highway bridge built in 1920s), a footbridge with bicycle lane (built in 1990s) and a railway bridge.

Martha Sharp

Along with Waitstill, Martha administered a relief program after seeking advice from Alice Masaryk and other prominent Czechs.

Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak statesman, sociologist, philosopher, and the first President and founder of Czechoslovakia

Kfar Masaryk (village of Masaryk), a kibbutz in northern Israel


Alice Masaryková

After she finished her studies, Masaryk was invited to stay at the University of Chicago Social Settlement (UCSS) where she metJulia Lathrop, Mary McDowell and Jane Addams.

Masaryk was an active supporter of the academic women network and it is also recorded that Thomas Masaryk contributed to a monetary fund for the First International Fellowship of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW).

The interfering was based on a public uproar in the USA, in which Masaryk was openly supported by prominent personalities like Julia Lathrop, Jane Addams and Mary McDowell.

Charlotte Garrigue

Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk (November 20, 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, USA – May 13, 1923 Lány) was the wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia.

In 1877, visiting a friend studying at a conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, she first met her future husband, Tomáš Masaryk, who was staying there after having earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna.

Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic

The new constitution was further influenced by the Czech humanist tradition (Jan Hus, Petr Chelčický, Jan Amos Komenský, František Palacký, František Rieger, Tomáš Masaryk) as well as the peace conferences which took place after the first world war.

Czech tramping

The economic successes of the new nation and its many political and social links to the United States (for example the first Czechoslovak President, Tomáš Masaryk, was married to Charlotte Garrigue, who was from a prominent American family and part of the reason for Masaryk's success in persuading Woodrow Wilson to support the inception of Czechoslovakia) meant that Czechs' interest in things American continued in earnest.

Jan Rys-Rozsévač

During 1939 - 1940 Vlajka organized mass meetings against politicians of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia as represented by Masaryk and Beneš.

Jiří Matoušek

Jiří Matoušek, chairman of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Scientific Advisory Board and professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at Masaryk University, Brno

Kfar Masaryk

In 1940 the kibbutz moved to its present site and was renamed Kfar Masaryk after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia

Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora

Hanka's hoax was not exposed until 1886, in an article by Jan Gebauer in Masaryk's journal Athenaeum.


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