Thiersch
FRIEDRICH WIL- HELM, a German classical scholar; born in Kirchscheidungen, Prussian Saxony, June 17, 1784, studied theology and philology at Leipsic and Göttingen, and in 1809, following a call to the newlyfounded Munich Lyceum, there founded a Philological Institute. The enthusiasm he had shown in the German War of Liberation he presently directed to Hellenic regeneration, and in 1831 visited Greece, where on the murder of Capo d'Istria he coöperated toward the election of Otto of Bavaria to the throne. Returning to Munich, he was elected president of the Academy in 1848. His most important work was his "Greek Grammar." He died in Munich Feb. 25, 1860.
THIERSCHITE (after F. von Thiersch, the discoverer), a mineral subthe marbles of Parthenon, Athens. Statstance occurring as an incrustation on ed to be an oxalate of lime originating from the action of vegetation on the marble.