Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1937 |
Number: | 22 - 2 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Tomás Garrigue Masaryk |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1850 |
Year, Death: | 1937 |
Profession: | Former president of Czechoslovakia (1918-35) |
University: | Prague |
City: | Prague |
Country: | CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ) |
Motivation: | Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. As a Czechoslovakian nationalist he fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism. He successfully acted as mediator between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1912. During World War I Masaryk advocated democratic rights and human liberation. He was the chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Veit Valentin |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor of German History |
University: | University of London |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Comments: | Masaryk had previously been evaluated in 1913, 1921, 1923 and 1936. |
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