M.R.Stefanik is a known unknown Slovak national hero. Communist wanted to erase name Stefanik from the historical memory of the Czech and Slovak nations. Immediately, after revolution in 1993 came opposite extreme. Streets, schools, airport, military academy, the highest state award was renamed in his honor. But in fact, many Slovaks know little about him.
He is celebrated as a general, politician and diplomat and one of the founders of Czechoslovakia. But some historians are portraying him as an adventurer, diplomatic intriguer and womanizer, with many passionate affairs. His premature death in crashing airplane stays unexplained and has been regularly reminded by many different conspiracy theories.
This article has ambition to provide information about his life when he worked as a scientist and undergo many scientific journeys, as a military leader forming the Czechoslovak legion and as a diplomat contributing to establishment of the Czechoslovakia.
Milan Rastislav Stefanik was born in 1880 in a small village called Kosariska in Slovakia, in this time part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in family of the Lutheran priest. After completing his elementary and secondary education at Bratislava, earning his doctorate at Faculty of Art of the Charles University in Prague in 1904 he decided to leave Austria-Hungary and move to Paris. In this time, Paris represented the science, cultural and art center of the Europe.
Stefanik was art connoisseur; he liked mathematics, physics and admired astronomy. But he grew up in a poor, so he arrived to Paris with one small luggage, without any money only with recommendation from his university professor. After long time of poor existence he became an assistant in Jansen’s observatory in Meudo...
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...nd he was willing to give up comfortable life to follow his aims, he had an exciting military career, became a pilot, founder of military meteorological service at France Air Force and finally general, he had almost mystic character of the intelligent and attractive men and he was accompany with his loves all life and even his mysterious unexplained death in an airplane crash added to his admiration. For same people he is Slovak Exupery, he is celebrated as a hero by nationalist and in the same time by federalist. But it's unquestionable that he was one of the greatest Slovak personalities. When we follow closely his life, we can see that Stefanik grew up with his difficult tasks. As more difficult and complex task he fulfill, he became more matured as a person, soldier, scientist and politician.
“There were no impossible things to me, because I wanted to.” Stefanik
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