Frederik Moltke Bugge

Named Det offentlige Skolevæsens Forfatning i adskillige tydske Stater, tilligemed Ideer til en Reorganisation af det offentlige Skolevæsen i Kongeriget Norge, the work was published by the Norwegian state the next year, and even awarded with a gold medal by Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.

However, he also wanted to protect the "learned" schools, which taught classical subjects, from too much influence from natural sciences and modern languages.

A public polemic ensued between "classicists" and "realists"; Herman Foss and Anton Martin Schweigaard adhered to the latter.

Although the classical subjects declined and never recovered,[3] Bugge all in all became known as one of the "grand school strategists in 19th-century Norway", together with Ole Vig and Hartvig Nissen.

Bugge's public fall came in 1851, when he was forced to retire from Trondhjem Cathedral School, having battled alcoholism for some years.