Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (born 1880)

Milan Rastislav Štefánik

Slovak politician, aviator, and astronomer (1880–1919)

Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia. As one of the leading members of the Czechoslovak National Council, he…