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Thun-Hohenstein, Leo Graf#

b. Děčín, Czech Republic (then Teschen), April 7, 1811, d. Vienna, Dec. 17, 1888, politician, reformer of the Austrian system of education. As Minister of Education (1849-1860) he put through the reforms mainly suggested by F. S. Exner ( Organisationsentwurf 1849), raised the status of the Protestant College of Divinity to that of a faculty (1850), increased the number of scientific disciplines (appointments also open to Protestant and Jewish professors) especially at the philosophical faculties and gave the study of law a solid basis. Under him the Concordat was signed in 1855. After 1860 he tried unsuccessfully to put his federalist-autonomist concept of state through with the help of his Catholic Conservative group (directed the central organ "Das Vaterland", 1865-1888).

Literature#

H. Lentze, Die Univ.-Reform des Min. Gf. L. T.-H., 1962; C. Thienen-Adlerflycht, Gf. L. T.-H. im Vormaerz, 1967.

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