Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - first president of Czechoslovakia

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 Pow