Tomas Garrigue Masaryk - Vienna, Austria
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N 48° 12.550 E 016° 22.189
33U E 601767 N 5340456
This plaque is located on the building at 1 Petersplaz.
Waymark Code: WMJYB6
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 01/15/2014
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This plaque has an image of Masaryk with text in two languages, German and Czech.
The Czech portion reads:
"Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
1850 - 1937
UNIVERSITNI PROFESOR
POSLANEC RISSKE RADY
A PRVNI PRESIDENT CESKO
SLOVENSKE REPUBLIKY
ZDE BYDLEL V DOBE SVYCH
STUDII V LETECH 1870 AZ 1873"
which Google translates as:
"Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
1850 - 1937
Reader in university
Member of the Imperial Council
And the first president of the Czech
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Lived here during his
Studies in 1870 and 1873"
Wikipedia (
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"Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ...sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was an Austrian-Czech politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. 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."
This webpage has a photo of the building with the plaque (
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