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THIERSCH, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1784-1860)

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THIERSCH, See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1784-1860) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and educationist, was See also:born at Kirchscheidungen near See also:Freiburg on the Unstrut, on the 17th of See also:June 1784. In 1809 he became See also:professor at the gymnasium at See also:Munich, and in 1826 professor of See also:ancient literature in the university of See also:Landshut, transferred in that See also:year to Munich. He died at Munich on the 25th of See also:February 186o. Thiersch, the " See also:tutor of See also:Bavaria " (praeceptor Bavariae), found an extremely unsat;sfactory See also:system . of See also:education in existence. There was a violent See also:feud between the See also:Protestant " See also:north " and the See also:Catholic " See also:south " Germans; Thiersch's colleagues, chiefly old monks, offered violent opposition to his reforms, and an See also:attempt was made upon his See also:life. His schemes, how-ever, were carried out, and have remained the governing principle of the educational institutions of Bavaria. Thiersch was an ardent supporter of See also:Greek See also:independence. In 1832 he visited See also:Greece, and it is said that his See also:influence had much to do with securing the See also:throne of the newly created See also:kingdom for See also:Otto of Bavaria. He wrote a Greek See also:grammar, a metrical See also:translation of See also:Pindar, and an See also:account of Greece (L'Etat actuel de la Grece (1833). See also:Biography by his son, H. W. J.

Thiersch (1866) ; see a'so G. M. See also:

Thomas, Gedachtnissrede auf Friedrich von Thiersch (186o) , articles by A. Baumeister in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and O. Zockler in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyclopadie See also:fur protestantische Theologie, xix. ; J. E. See also:Sandys, See also:History of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908).

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