Alexandre,
Emmanuel Batek, Professor; Prague
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delivered popular lectures on pacifism, natural life, vegetarianism,
anti-tobaccoism, on natural history, chemistry and the classification
of the sciences. During the war he was a captain in the camp of
Italian prisoners at Sigmundsherberg. In 1925 he wrote an
autobiography, "How I lived and worked for 50 years".
Ivan
Bause, Professor of Latin Language; Prague
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has an interest in ancient Indian language and culture and has worked
in factories. In his lectures since 1923 and in critical articles he
has tried to enlarge the horizon of the youth with the view to spare
the next generation from the often heard reproach "Small Country,
Small Heart". He found much understanding for his work among Slovak
Academicians. He has written a theater play entitled, "Clearing up
Philosophical Problems", 1926
Joseph
Bradac, Secretary of Young Men's Christian Association;
Moravská Ostrava
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is the founder of the Salvation Army in Czechoslovakia, (1919) and
the founder of the Anti-Tobacco-League of Czechoslovakia. He has
published lectures for the reform of life, for practical
Christianity, and for Peace (pen-name: Jos. b. Nezárecky).
Krsto
Cicvaric, Author and publicist; Belgrade
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is a student of Philosophy in Vienna and Belgrade as well as a
politician, writer, publicist and editor of many socialistic, and
revolutionary weekly newspapers. He has the largest private library
in Belgrad. As a philosopher he believes in monism; as a politician
in democracy and liberalism; and otherwise he is a propagator of
world organization.
Viktor
Eglitis, Author, Chief-Teacher, Censor; Riga
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spent his childhood in the country, was educated in Russia, and has
been excluded from the Institute of Art together with 43 other pupils
on account of his new ideas. In 1902 he became more interested in
symbolism through a psychological breakdown. After new researches in
1907 he passed over to the classicism. He traveled to
Mato
Hanzekowic, 
In 1911 he became a judge in Bosnia and in 1920 he became a lawyer in
Bosnia. In 1917 he devoted himself entirely to literary work being of
the opinion that there is no ethic to be found in the job of a
lawyer. He aspires to the fraternization of mankind.
Bohumil
Hradecny, Artistic painter; Prague
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is prominent painter of landscapes and animal pictures. He is
scientifically well acquainted with occultism, mystic, alchemy and is
the author of "Schlüssel zur Alchimie" and many other occult
treatises in various periodicals. His son (the Engineer Otakar
Hradecny) is a keen collector of ex-libris (member of Czech and Dutch
Ex-libris Societies).
Roman
Jirman, Author and journalist; Prague.
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is the promoter of the concept: "Central European Transit Station" in
Prague and of the new philosophic idea "Hierarchic World Order".
Cicerone
Jordachescu, Professor of old Christian literature; jud. Baia
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was a confessor in the army during the World War in 1917-1919 and he
was sent to Paris to be a superior of the Rumanian Church of Paris.
In 1918 he held a conference in London about "The state of things in
his country during the great war". He is a Professor of English
language and philosophy in the secondary school of Jassy and he
estimates very highly English literature and German philosophy. His
ideal is to show to his countrymen that the religious life has at
least so many genuine roots in the human soul as the scientific,
artistic and moral ones and that the true products of the human
spirit in art, morals and science do not contrast with the religious
ones. Therefore he takes great interest in studying the works of the
European culture.
Simon
Kemény, Budapest
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is one of the founders and editors of the "Az Est", the greatest
Hungarian daily paper. He does not belong to any of the usual poetic
schools and "his poems are characterized by a strong personality,
refined expression, surprising and pregnant symbolism and express the
psychical tension and disillusioned pessimism of modern man".
Oskar
Kraus, Ordinary Professor of Philosophy, University; Prague
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studied the philosophical tendencies of Franz Brentano which were
represented at the Prague University by Anton Marty. His considered
psychology, especially descriptive psychology, as a central
discipline of philosophy and he defends a theistic view of the world.
Since 1931 T. G. Masaryk, the President of the Czechoslovakian
Republic, made it possible (by making ready the necessary funds) to
found a Brentano Society and a Brentano Archive thus publicizing and
spreading out these psychological tendencies and methods.
Josef
Pirner, Professor of Music Academy for Slovakia; Bratislava
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In preparation is the composition of an opera, "Kampf der Welten"
whose content is the fraternization of the people's of Europe. He is
the composer of the Pan-European Hymn to the words of the young
Slovakian Poet Dr. Iskrin-Kovacic.
S.
Josip Slavenski, Composer and Professor; Belgrade
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His first great success was in Donaueschingenin Germany in 1924. The
first performance of "Balkanophonia" was in Berlin in 1929 under
Erich Kleiber. His main compositions are: "Heliophonia"" cosmic
vision for stage, orchestra, choir and organ, "Religiophonia"
(Pagans, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Mohammedans and Praise of life
and work) an oratorium for choir and orchestra and many other works
on all subjects including, "Ursymphony" for orchestra and organ.