Charlotte Garrigue Masaryková

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Charlotte Garrigue 1870

Charlotte Garrigue Masaryková (born November 20, 1850 in Brooklyn , † May 13, 1923 in Lány u Rakovníka ) was an American-Czech pianist. She was married to the philosopher Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , the first Czechoslovak president.

Life

Charlotte Garrigue's father, the Brooklyn insurance director Rudolph Garrigue , was a great-grandson of Moyse Garrigue , so came from a Huguenot family who had emigrated from Germany to Denmark to the USA. Charlotte was the third of four children. The Garrigue family maintained close relationships with their family who remained in Europe. Therefore Charlotte studied music at the Conservatory in Leipzig in 1874/75 . Later, when she returned to Leipzig, she met Tomáš Masaryk, whom she married in Brooklyn in March 1878. Masaryk took his wife's name as an additional family name; henceforth his name was Garrigue Masaryk. Until Masaryk was appointed professor at the University of Prague in 1882, the couple lived in Vienna. The marriage had four children. Her son Jan Masaryk was a diplomat and later Czechoslovak Foreign Minister. He died in 1948 under unknown circumstances, in the so-called third lintel in Prague.

Act

Bust for Garrigue Masaryková in Hradčany , Prague

Charlotte Garrigue Masaryková learned Czech quickly and took a lively and committed part in her husband's political life and the work of the political party he founded. She was his advisor and thus had a great influence on the political discussion in the run-up to the independence of Czechoslovakia , especially on the women’s issue , which was very topical at the time . She also contributed to the editing of her husband's political magazine Naše doba (Our Time) with witty and competent musical treatises.

Garrigue Masaryková also acted independently, as a socialist and long-time member of the Social Democratic Party . When her husband went into exile in London in 1914 because of the political pressure, she stayed in the country. She and her family were now the target of the repression by the Austrian police, which lasted until the establishment of Czechoslovakia and the election of her husband as the first president in December 1918.

literature

  • Lenka Slívová: Charlotta, žena TGM Mladá fronta, Praha 2018. Biography. ISBN 978-80-204-5023-4 .
  • Johannes Fischer: The French colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 22, 1942.
  • CHN Garrigue: Silhouettes of Garrigues and some other profiles. Orbis Publishing House, Prague 1930.
  • Michaela Košťálová: Charlotta Garrigue Masaryková. Ve stínu. Petrklíč, Praha 2016 ISBN 978-80-7229-586-9
  • Stanislav Polák: Charlotta Garrigue Masaryková. Mladá fronta, Praha 1992, ISBN 80-204-0300-0

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CHN Garrigues: Silhouetten Garrigues'scher and some other profiles , Orbis Verlag, Prague 1930, p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Garrigue Masaryková, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Czech pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1923
Place of death Lány u Rakovníka