Friedrich Thiersch
Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (17 June 1784Template:Snd25 February 1860), was a German classical scholar and educator.
Biography
He was born at Kirchscheidungen (now a part of Laucha an der Unstrut, Saxony-Anhalt). In 1809 he became professor at the gymnasium at Munich, and in 1826 professor of ancient literature at the University of Landshut; he was transferred in that year to Munich where he remained till his death. Thiersch, the "tutor of Bavaria" (praeceptor Bavariae), found an extremely unsatisfactory system of education in existence. There was a violent feud between the Protestant "north" and the Catholic "south" Germans; Thiersch's colleagues, chiefly old monks, offered violent opposition to his reforms, and an attempt was made upon his life. His plans were nevertheless carried out, and became the governing principle of the educational institutions of Bavaria.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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Thiersch was an ardent supporter of Greek independence. In 1832 he visited Greece, and his influence is said to have helped secure the throne of the newly created kingdom for Otto of Greece. He wrote a Greek grammar, a metrical translation of Pindar, and an account of Greece (L'état actuel de la Grece) in 1833.<ref name="EB1911"/> He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855.<ref name=AAAS>Template:Cite web</ref>
Thiersch died in Munich. He is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich. After his death the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften commissioned a bronze medal made by the engraver Joahnn Adam Ries in 1860.<ref>http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek and M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts, 86-88.</ref><ref>S. Krmnicek and M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Online exhibition [1]</ref> His biography was written by his son, H. W. J. Thiersch (1866).<ref name="EB1911"/> Another son, Karl Thiersch, was a renowned surgeon, and yet another, Ludwig Thiersch, was an influential painter.
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1784 births
- 1860 deaths
- People from Laucha an der Unstrut
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 19th-century German educational theorists
- German classical scholars
- German philhellenes
- Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof
- 18th-century German scholars