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Chapter 2 ♦  83 were confirmed by none other than Tomek, Hanuš was suspended shortly after the funeral. Thun-Hohenstein dismissed Hanuš at the beginning of the winter term of 1852.181 Intentions and Results Given Thun-Hohenstein’s strategy of balancing local and foreign appoint- ments, one can discern differences in the nominees depending on the faculty and locality. The medical faculties remained predominantly Habsburg. Correspondingly, they were also bound to the local language situation, both in Prague and in Cracow; at these universities in 1860, only a few scholars who had been born outside of the respective province likely spoke only German.182 In Vienna in 1860, all but one scholar at the medical fac- ulty had been born in the Habsburg Empire. At the philosophical faculty in Vienna, in contrast, a third of the lecturers had been born outside the mon- archy. Three non-Habsburg-born scholars (i.e., 30 percent of all professors) taught in Graz, and one in Innsbruck, where around half of the scholars were Tyroleans. Faculties within multilingual provinces also show less con- centration on local scholars, as in the case of medicine. In Prague in 1860, almost half of the lecturers had been born outside Bohemia or Moravia, and figure 2 Augustin Smetana’s struggle for liberalism and against the domination of the Catholic Church not only became a point of reference for his contemporaries but remains in the collective memory even today. Here, the scene of his burial. (From Galerie NE: Galerie osobnosti, které se nebály jít proti proudu [Galery-No: Gallery of people who were not afraid to swim against the current]. Drawing by Jaroslav Ježek.)