!!!Greuter, Josef

Greuter, Josef, b. Tarrenz (Tyrol), Oct. 1, 1817, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), June 21, 1888, priest, Capuchin friar, 
secondary school teacher and politician. Represented the interests of 
the Catholic church in the Landtag and the Reichsrat, strong opponent 
of the  Imperial Decree on Protestantism of 1861 and liberal school 
legislation (from 1868). It was mainly due to his resistance that 
school legislation in Tyrol was not passed until 1892.

!Literature
G. Kretschmar, Msgr. J. G. und die Tiroler 
Konservativen, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1949; OeBL.



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