He studied history at Oxford and later worked at Leeds University. During World War I he became Lieutenant for the Royal Navy Reserve. After WW1 he acted as the Secretary to the diplomatic mission to Czechoslovakia. At Prague he saw the shaping of the new Republic and became friends with presidents Masaryk and Benes. He wrote various publications on the history of European scholarship and was an expert in Comenius. He was also Secretary of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education from 1920-1940 and Honorary Secretary of the Czech Society of Great Britain. -Wikitree
| Born | 26 Jun 1879 |
| Died | 1960 |
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| Born | 26 Jun 1879 |
| Died | 1960 |
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Indians of North America, Biography, Education, Humanists, Learned institutions and societies, Royal Society (Great Britain), Czechs, Czechs in London, History, Intellectual life, Learned and scientific societies, Royal Society of LondonPlaces
Bohemia, London, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, England, London (England)People
Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670), Comenius, George Ritschel (1616-1683), Jan Amos Komenský, Joannes Sictor, Joannes Sictor (1593-1652)Time
17th centuryID Numbers
- OLID: OL1592739A
- ISNI: 0000000110940205
- Library of Congress Names: no2009023494
- VIAF: 78963484
- Wikidata: Q105779464
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q105779464
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- Young, Robert Fitzgibbon, 1879-1960
- Young, Robert Fitzgibbon
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