Dr. Antonín Benjamin Svojsík (September 5, 1876–September 17, 1938) was the founder of the
Czechoslovak Scouting
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organization
Junák
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.
Dr. Svojsík served on the
World Scout Committee of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement from its creation in 1922 until 1933.
When
J. S. Wilson
Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson (1888–1969) was a Scottish scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of General Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the International Bureau, later to become the World Bureau of the World Organiz ...
visited Czechoslovakia for two weeks in April and May 1947, he laid a wreath on the tomb of Dr. Svojsík.
References
* ''Scouting Round the World'',
John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 46 88 162
1876 births
1938 deaths
People from Prague
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
World Scout Committee members
Scouting pioneers
Scouting and Guiding in the Czech Republic
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