T. G. Masaryk i Bosna i Hercegovina
T. G. Masaryk and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to record the most important contacts between T. G. Masaryk and Bosnia-Hercegovina and to incorporate them into broarder context of Masaryk's connections with South Slav nations. On the basis of well-preserved archival sources and contemporary journalism, the article analyzes three periods during which Masaryk's contacts with Bosnia-Hercegovina were particularly intensive: 1) The period 1892-1893, when, as a member of parliament for Young Czech party, Masaryk focused on Bosnian problems for the first time in several of his speeches in parliament, 2) the period 1908-1914, when Masaryk criticized the way in which Bosnia-Hercegovina was annexed and called on the Austro-Hungarian government to resolve the country's social problems, especially the problems of farmers, 3) the interwar period, when journalism and cultural institutions in Bosnia-Hercegovina publicized Masaryk and his works as a symbol of friendly relations between Czechoslovakia and the Yugoslavian state. Masaryk was highly esteemed by the people of Bosnia-Hercegovina (without regard to nationality or religion) for the concrete assistance he provided them.

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