Prof. Dr. phil. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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• Tomáš Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czech: [%CB%88toma%CB%90%CA%83 ˈɡarɪk ˈmasarɪk]), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, therefore is he called "President liberator". He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded. He was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize seventeen times.