!!!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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