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See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM See also:THIERSCH (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 . See also: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 .
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