Friedrich Thiersch

Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch (17 June 1784 – 25 February 1860), was a German classical scholar and educator.

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.

He wrote a Greek grammar, a metrical translation of Pindar, and an account of Greece (L'état actuel de la Grece) in 1833.

[1] He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855.

After his death the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften commissioned a bronze medal made by the engraver Joahnn Adam Ries in 1860.