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76-1015: After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen - Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg , then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen . Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau , later in Munich. After 1899, he worked for the magazine Simplicissimus and published humorous narrations , comedies , novels and stories. Thoma satirized Bavarian rural and small-town life. His serious peasant novels Andreas Vöst (1905), Der Wittiber (1911), and Der Ruepp (1922), as well as his humorous collections Assessor Karlchen (1900), Lausbubengeschichten ( Tales of

152-491: A Rascal , 1904), and Tante Frieda ( Aunt Frieda , 1906), are characterized by authenticity of regional language and life. Thoma's dramas, including Die Medaille ( The Medal , 1901), Das Säuglingsheim ( The Orphanage , 1913), and especially Moral (1908), reflect elements of folk theatre. In 1907 he married 25-year-old Marietta di Rigardo, who was born in the Philippines. The marriage, however, did not last; Marietta

228-583: A background in classical Latin as well as training in humanistic scripts. Still considered as the language of the learned, Latin was esteemed and used frequently in the academic field. However, at the start of the 14th century, writers started writing in the vernacular . Due to this event and the common practice of interweaving Latin with a dialect even at advanced stages in learning, the precedence of Latin schools from other pedagogical institutions diminished. Clergy often funded ecclesiastical schools where clerics taught. Many historians argue that up until 1300

304-466: A book containing dialogues written for the study of Latin grammar, was written by Erasmus and became one of the most popular books of its time. Students of Studia Humanitatis were seen as well prepared for occupations pertaining to politics or business. Learning the classics and other subjects in this curriculum enabled the individual to speak, argue and write with eloquence and relevance. Early Modern children were first taught to read and write

380-788: A coffin anymore." According to Luis Markowsky from the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism , Thoma "made the crude socially acceptable through a skilful writing style that connected to Nazi propaganda ". On 6 August, Thoma underwent a stomach operation in Munich. He died of stomach cancer on 26 August 1921 at his home in Tegernsee. He bequeathed most of his considerable fortune as well as his fees and royalties to Maidi von Liebermann. His divorced wife Marion, his sisters Katharina Hübner and Bertha Zurwesten and his brother Peter Thoma each received

456-704: A contribution by Tucholsky (alias Ignaz Wrobel) in Die Weltbühne ). In an article on 16 March 1921, Thoma wrote in the Miesbacher Anzeiger under the title "Broadcast to all Berlin government and Jewish Pigs" with reference to the law passed in the Reichstag for the dissolution of self-defence organizations that had formed after the First World War: "It only needs a Galician Jew to want to disarm us - we'll beat him so that he doesn't fit in

532-516: A large sum of other books (though not nearly as popular) was often referred to as the "canon of textbooks". Similarly, as the student advanced into the Ars Dictaminis stage more theory and practice writing formal or prose letters were focused on. Poetry was often a teachers favorite as it taught not only Latin , but mnemonic value and "truth". Poetry was not chiefly studied during the medieval times, although some classic poems were taken into

608-549: A new environment where people knew nothing about his embarrassing behaviour. In his Erinnerungen , Thoma describes his times as a schoolboy in Munich and Prien verbosely, but he treats his degree studies very briefly: I spent two terms at the Forestry Academy in Aschaffenburg, then I switched to law, studied in Munich and Erlangen, where I passed the exam after the prescribed time had expired. My experiences at

684-796: A new kind of education in Latin. Schools and academies that centred on instructing classical literature , history, rhetoric , dialectic , natural philosophy , arithmetic , medieval texts, the Greek language , as well as modern foreign languages, emerged. They called this new curriculum the Studia Humanitatis . Latin school formed the basis of education in the elite Italian city-states . Positions such as headmaster of grammar schools or professor of Latin grammar, rhetoric and dialect, were filled in by erudite humanists. Guarino da Verona , another humanist, devised three stages for humanistic learning:

760-480: A period of alternating between boarding school and holidaying in his family's "idyllic home", as he calls it in Lausbubengeschichten ("Tales of a Rascal"). Misdemeanours and conflicts with teachers there are probably based on real experiences: "There is sufficient evidence that Thoma condensed these altercations for his stories, but by no means invented them." In 1877, he moved to the boarding school of

836-533: A permanent editor of Simplicissimus . In the years that followed, Thoma was one of the most important authors for Simplicissimus . He appeared as a satirist under several pseudonyms - he usually wrote his poems as "Peter Schlemihl". At the beginning of 1901 he wrote the one-act play Die Medaille , set in Dachau which was premiered at Munich's Residence Theatre . The play was also staged in Berlin; Thoma accompanied

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912-552: A responsible person on site at the editorial office in Munich. Langen considered hiring Thoma as editor-in-chief, his confidant Korfiz Holm had previously spoken out against Thoma: Moreover, in his literary judgment he adopts the viewpoint of a night watchman, declares [...] that everything a woman has written is crap, etc. I'm afraid he's too blunt and outspoken for Simplicissimus But Langen chose Thoma, whose comedy Die Witwen had failed him as well as Munich director Jocza Savits. In September 1899, Thoma sold his law firm and became

988-549: A social morality organisation", a sentence which he had to serve in Stadelheim Gaol near Munich. In 1907, he married dancer Marietta di Rigardo, known as Marion (1880–1966), who was born in the Philippines and was an emancipated young woman for her time. The marriage didn't last long, the temperaments of the two were too different. Marion became bored and became unfaithful. The marriage ended in divorce in 1911, but

1064-477: A student could stay in school, although if a relative was one of the school's founders then an extended stay was possible. Schools were managed by appointing a committee who then employed a teacher and paid their salary. These schools usually had limited supervision from the town authorities. Freelance Latin masters opened up their own schools quite frequently and would provide Latin education to anyone willing to pay. These freelance schools usually taught students in

1140-567: A sum of 200,000 marks, the latter also a lifelong pension of 2,000 marks a year. Ludwig Thoma was buried in the parish cemetery of the Church of St. Lawrence, Egern, in Rottach-Egern by Lake Tegernsee. Today his grave lies between that of his longtime friend, the writer Ludwig Ganghofer , and that of his lover, Maidi von Liebermann. In his works, Ludwig Thoma tried to expose the prevailing pseudo-morality. He also uncompromisingly denounced

1216-475: A very remote and lonely area at the time. His upbringing was essentially in the hands of his nanny Viktoria Pröbstl, with whom Ludwig Thoma had a very close relationship. According to Katharina Thomas Willen, Ludwig was to have pursued a career as a priest. As a result, she attached great importance to a good education for her son; private tutors taught him to read and write even before he started school, and he received private Latin lessons early on. Shortly after

1292-406: A year in Munich and stayed until 1885. The family moved to Traunstein in 1883, where his mother leased the inn Zur Post . The trigger for the change of location seems to have been a "shameful act" on the part of Ludwig, which also made it impossible for his sister Marie to accept a suitor. In 1884, after the death of Karl Decrignis, the forest officer Ludwig von Raesfeldt took on the guardianship of

1368-607: Is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim in Germany. The town is a certified air and Kneipp spa on the western shore of the lake of Chiemsee , 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of Rosenheim . The name of Prien is derived from the Celtic denomination of the river Prien ( Brigenna, 'coming from the mountains'). The political municipality of Prien am Chiemsee has 36 official neighborhoods: Prien

1444-624: Is also a Ludwig Thoma Primary School in Traunstein. The Dachau–Altomünster railway is also known as the Ludwig-Thoma-Bahn . His bust is in the Hall of Fame in Munich. The city of Munich awarded a Ludwig Thoma Medal in his honour from 1967 onwards, but the award was discontinued in 1990 after his national conservative attitude, anti-Semitic slogans and anti-socialist polemics became known. Latin school The Latin school

1520-579: Is on the main rail line between Munich and Salzburg. Two branch lines originate at the Prien station. The Chiemgau Railway is a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) line extending into the foothills of the Alps at Aschau im Chiemgau ; it is served by diesel multiple units. The Chiemsee-Bahn is a 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) narrow-gauge steam-operated seasonal tourist line connecting the Prien station with Lake Chiem at Prien-Stock . From there boats operate to Herreninsel in

1596-413: Is that you publicly profess moral principles. That has a favourable effect on the family, on the state." In the same piece, the chairman of this moral society makes the statement: "Mr. Assessor, when a couple in a marriage stop lying, then they separate." Until then, Thomas' attitude had been left-liberal . So he had not held back from often biting criticism of society, church and state. This changed with

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1672-628: The Corps Suevia Munich . In Munich he did compete in two compulsory duels, but stayed on the defensive each time. So he received the (at his time) desirable schmiss ("duelling scar"), but was also released from the Corps Suevia without a ribbon. On the advice of a fellow student, he switched to the University of Erlangen for the summer term; he studied here without getting involved in any clubs, and on 1 August 1890 he received

1748-627: The Ludwig-Thoma-Bier from the Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden bear his name. The municipal Ludwig Thoma Middle School ( Realschule ) in Munich has borne his name since it was built in 1973. In Dachau there is a Ludwig Thoma School (primary school). In Prien am Chiemsee there is the Ludwig Thoma Grammar School ( Gymnasium ) in Prien in the restaurant where Thoma and his mother lived from 1876. There

1824-701: The Renaissance so did their attitudes towards Medieval Latin schools. Renaissance humanists criticized Medieval Latin calling it "barbaric jargon". Scholars like the Dutch humanist, Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), denounced the church and the way it taught. He desired that a Renaissance in the Roman Catholic Church should accompany the study of the classics . Humanist ideas became so influential that residents in Italian states began to call for

1900-449: The 1450s. In some countries, but not England, they later lost their popularity as universities and some Catholic orders began to prefer the vernacular. Medieval Europe thought of grammar as a foundation from which all forms of scholarship should originate. Grammar schools otherwise known as Latin schools taught Latin by using Latin. Latin was the language used in nearly all academic and most legal and administrative matters, as well as

1976-563: The 16th century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation supported the establishment of municipal schools. Jesuits founded their own schools and offered free training in Latin grammar, Philosophy, Theology, Geography, Religious Doctrine and History for boys. It was important for Jesuits as well as the Catholic Reformation to instruct clergymen as well as laymen in this type of education. The Jesuits pursued

2052-517: The Catholic Church tried to deal with the surfacing of Protestant Latin schools that involved itself with orienting church authorities and pastors. John Calvin , a reformer, taught Latin grammar along with the Geneva catechism. Nevertheless, there were some reformers who wanted to cease using Latin in worship, finding the vernacular a more efficient language to use. In the latter part of

2128-660: The Church had a monopoly on education in Medieval Italy. Latin church schools seemed to appear around the 12th century, however very few remained after the 14th century as a vernacular, more definite form of Latin school emerged in Italy. In some areas in Spain during the late 15th century, the church encouraged priests and sacristans to train others in reading and writing. After the Protestant Reformation ,

2204-649: The Fatherland Party, as in the summer of 1917 in Munich's Löwenbräukeller . He could not cope with the looming war defeat in November 1918 . He no longer understood the world and bitterly withdrew to his house. In summer of 1918 he met Maidi Liebermann von Wahlendorf (1883–1971), who came from the Jewish sparkling wine dynasty Feist-Belmont and was now married. Thoma fell passionately in love with her and bemoaned his fate for not having taken her as his wife at

2280-621: The Hungarian upper class, was Kathinka Ganghofer, the wife of Ludwig Ganghofer . Thoma and Ganghofer did not know each other personally at that time; Thoma ended the affair at the end of 1901; he and Ganghofer only met in 1903. In 1901, Thoma wrote his comedy Die Lokalbahn , which opened on 19 October 1902 (again in the Residence Theatre). Viktoria Pröbstl died in November 1902. In 1903, Thoma met graphic artist Ignatius Taschner , with whom he soon became close friends. Certainly by

2356-674: The Thoma siblings. In 1885, Raesfeldt succeeded in getting Ludwig admitted to the final year of the grammar school in Landshut , after he was threatened with expulsion from his school in Munich. Martin A. Klaus quotes the "special remarks" from Thomas Landshut's high school diploma: He did his earlier studies at the Wilhelmsgymn. in Munich, but behaved there in such a way that he had to be advised seriously to change schools. In Landshut, Thoma passed his Maturität examinations in 1886. At

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2432-694: The Waldbauer bookstore in Passau . Paul switched in 1897 to the satirical weekly Simplicissimus founded the year before by Albert Langen , whose employees Thoma also met in Café Heck on Odeonsplatz . In 1898, he sent the first manuscripts to Simplicissimus , which were well received by publisher and public. When the edition of 31 October 1899 was confiscated for lèse-majesté , author Frank Wedekind , draftsman Thomas Theodor Heine and publisher Langen fled abroad to avoid prosecution. Simplicissimus needed

2508-612: The beginning of the First World War . Simplicissimus became increasingly less strident, and Thoma could not and did not want to withdraw from the general enthusiasm for the war, especially among intellectuals. He volunteered as a medic and moved in 1915 with a Bavarian Division to the Eastern Front in Galicia . There he became seriously ill with dysentery and became unfit for military service. Many works appeared in

2584-455: The certificate for entry into legal clerkship. For Martin Klaus, failure and the subsequent change of educational establishment is symptomatic of Thoma's character: The move to Erlangen following the "Suevia" embarrassment is an important indication of how little Thoma could cope with a tarnished public image of himself. In order to keep up appearances in such situations, he preferred to switch to

2660-466: The curriculum that would teach students grammar. These texts however, were often not the original texts, as more often than not, texts were changed to include moral stories or to display rules of grammar. These were usually in the form of fables or poems. New students generally started off with easy basic grammar, and steadily moved into harder Latin readings such as the Donatus ( Ars Minor stage), which

2736-581: The curriculum. However, during the Renaissance, pupils greatly studied poetry in order to learn metrics and style. As well, it was viewed as a broader study of Latin grammar and rhetoric, which often included concepts, and analysis of words Ars Dictaminis was an area of study that was created in the latter part of the Middle Ages as a response to the demand for social communication as offices for religious and political leaders increased. Rhetoric

2812-417: The elementary, the grammatical and the rhetorical. Humanists held the belief that by being a learned individual they were contributing to society. Hence, humanistic education constituted the intermediate and advanced levels for most of the urban population. It created an opportunity to advance an individual's social status since more institutions intellectual, political and economic sought workers who possessed

2888-554: The family moved to Forstenried near Munich in 1874, when Ludwig was only seven years old, his father died and the family were surprised to find themselves destitute: Viktoria Pröbstl had to sell furniture from the forester's lodge to pay for the burial. Thoma's mother had to raise seven children alone. The children initially had one of their father's colleagues, Karl Decrignis, as a guardian. Ludwig and his sister Luise were taken in by their uncle Albert Paulus in Landstuhl . There Ludwig attended one year of primary school, and then went into

2964-492: The first time by bicycle with colleagues from Simplicissimus through Italy to Rome . He wrote the mocking story Der heilige Hies and began to write his first novel Andreas Vöst . In 1906, Thoma and Hermann Hesse became editors of the magazine März . Also in 1906 he was imprisoned because of the satirical poem "On the morality of Preachers in Köln am Rheine" being sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for "insulting members of

3040-545: The first year. During his time in Aschaffenburg he joined the oldest forestry corps ( Forstcorps ), the Corps Hubertia of Munich. Because he did not attend a Mensur , he was dishonourably dismissed ("without a ribbon"). In the winter term of 1887/1888 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and enrolled for a degree in law . Like his father before him, he became a member of

3116-720: The forest service; his great-grandfather Joseph von Thoma  [ de ] (1767–1849) had headed the Bavarian Forestry Commission and had been elevated to the nobility as a life peer for his services. His mother's family initially ran an inn in Oberau , later in Oberammergau. He spent the first years of his life in the forester's lodge of Vorderriß on the River Isar near the Tyrolean border,

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3192-514: The government in Berlin and social democracy . But he also wrote about the Jewish bourgeoisie, for example: "Teiteles Cohn and Isidor Veigelduft, they are still allowed to put their ornate knuckles in their leather cases in summer, with Rebekka on her arm in a dirndl dress, smelling of violets and garlic." He described the Reich capital of Berlin as a "duck dump" and a "combination of a Galician Jewish nest and New York criminal district", described in

3268-578: The household. With a student friend he started a legal practice, to which he devoted less and less time in the years that followed. Adolf Hölzel , who worked in the Dachau Artists' Colony , and Bruno Paul , who celebrated his first successes in the Jugend , illustrated his collection of stories Agricola: Bauerngeschichten ("Stories of the Peasantry") in 1897. This, Thoma's first book, appeared in

3344-665: The language of the Völkisch movement of an "idiosyncracy deeply rooted in race ..." and insulted the Weimar Republic as "characterless idiocy". He called its representative "this sad herd of pigs from Tarnopol and Jaroslau " and emphasized that "besides the Hymie from Promenadenstrasse , we also have shot down several from the tribe of Levi ..." (the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner

3420-528: The language of the liturgy . Some of the laity, though not instructed formally, spoke and wrote some Latin. Courts, especially church courts, used Latin in their proceedings, although this was even less accessible than the vernacular to the lower classes, who often could not read at all, let alone Latin. Students often studied in Latin school for about five years, but by their third year, students would be deemed as "knowledgeable enough" in Latin grammar to assist

3496-550: The last years of his life in the Miesbacher Anzeiger " as dark episodes in Ludwig Thoma's life. He also points out that Thoma never submitted his doctoral thesis, but still called himself "Doctor Ludwig Thoma" and let himself be called a doctor, which has to be mentioned for an author who is so critical of his fellow human beings. Thoma still enjoys great popularity in Upper Bavaria today. For example, products such as

3572-411: The master teacher in teaching the younger or less skilled pupils. Most boys began at the age of seven but older men who wanted to study were not discouraged as long as they could pay the fees. Students usually finished their schooling during their late teens, but those who desired to join the priesthood had to wait until they were twenty-four in order to get accepted. There was usually a limit to how long

3648-445: The master's home. Others taught as a tutor in a student's household by either living there or making daily visits to teach. Students ranged from those who were members of the peasantry to those of the elite. If a serf 's child wanted to go to school, payment given to the lord was required (to replace the value of his labour) as well as his consent. As Europeans experienced the intellectual, political, economic and social innovations of

3724-562: The particularly productive year of 1916. In 1917, Thoma advertised in the Miesbacher Anzeiger for subscription to war bonds. "Our fatherland must carry on the war to the victorious end", it said in October 1917 under the headline "Why does the farmer have to subscribe to the war bond?" In July 1917 he enrolled as a member of the German Fatherland Party , which advocated an uncompromising victory . He spoke several times for

3800-696: The party conference of the Bavarian SPD and their agricultural policy for the Augsburger Abendzeitung in October. In it, he opposed the reform efforts of the Social Democrats and described Clara Zetkin as a "Russian virago". His early successes and better financial circumstances made him consider marriage. As early as 1892 he had met Johanna Sachs from Nuremberg, daughter of a grain dealer, whom he cautiously began to woo. But when her father gave him no further hopes, he gave up

3876-428: The plan. In late 1896, Thoma made another attempt to find a wife. On the basis of a marriage advertisement, he began to exchange letters with several candidates, which, however, did not result in anything. He mocked women a little later in his first comedy Witwen ("Widows"). In spring 1897, Thoma moved to Munich, where he shared a bachelor's apartment with his school friend, Richard Rothmaier, while Viktoria Pröbstl ran

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3952-541: The production at Überbrettl there in November 1901. In 1898, Thoma met a woman whom he never mentioned by name in his diary entries and private letters, but instead described her as "G." or Hohenzollernstraße . (The two met for their assignations in Hohenzollernstraße in Schwabing .) Martin Klaus suspects that his lover, who was married, older than Thoma and (according to his roommate Rothmair) came from

4028-555: The second year of the Latin school. The death of his father and separation from his family affected his school work; as a result he was a difficult student who received few favourable reports: There's something sly about his character. When censured and punished, he shows an unusual coldness and stubborn, defiant insensitivity for his years. In 1876, his mother rented the pub Zur Kampenwand in Prien am Chiemsee , which she managed together with Viktoria Pröbstl and her daughters. Ludwig began

4104-455: The significance of education to their order and took over the teaching responsibilities in Latin schools and secondary schools along with other Catholic orders in several Catholic areas. The Latin school curriculum was based mainly on reading Classical and some Medieval authors. Students had to learn the principles of Ars Dictaminis in order to learn how to write formal letters. Authors often had lists of books that were supposed to be used in

4180-494: The study of how to write official and private letters as well as records. The revised Ars Dictaminis took its guidelines from one of Cicero 's works, the de inventione and pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium . There were five main parts: the salutatio (salutation), benevolentiae (winning the agreement of the recipient through the arrangement of words), narratio (the point of the discussion), petitio (petition), and conclusio (conclusion). This systematic presentation

4256-613: The study seminar in Neuburg an der Donau . He had to repeat a year at the study centre in Burghausen . Here Georg Pauliebl was one of his friends; his life story was described by Thoma in the story Der heilige Hies ("Saint Hies"). In 1879, Thoma moved from Burghausen to the Wilhelmsgymnasium . During his school days he lived as a lodger, and he described this time in his Erinnerungen ("Memoires"). He also had to repeat

4332-425: The suggestion of his classmates, he went up to give the graduation speech: "But the young man failed. Thoma stood silently in front of the auditorium, unable to choke out a word, until the headmaster rushed to the podium, improvised a speech and saved the situation." Like his father, Thoma wanted to be a forester and began studying forest science in Aschaffenburg in the winter term of 1886/87, but dropped out after

4408-452: The time of his success with the novel Lokalbahn , Thoma had become an important source of income for the publisher. Thoma was rid of his financial worries and indulged in an upper-class lifestyle: together with Albert Langen, he leased a hunting ground in Unterweikertshofen near Dachau, which he had visited repeatedly since 1895. Although Langen paid half the lease, the hunt was primarily used by Thoma. In March and April 1903, he travelled for

4484-418: The time. Until his death he was to court her vigorously. Although she remained close to him, she could not bring herself to move in with him completely, since her husband refused to divorce. In the last 14 months of his life Thoma wrote for the Miesbacher Anzeiger - often through an editorial on the first page - 175 mostly (except for five cases) anonymous and mostly anti-Semitic articles, especially against

4560-457: The two remained friends. In 1908, he moved into his house "Auf der Tuften" in Tegernsee . His comedy Moral premiered that year, and the work became one of his greatest successes. In the play he had a representative of a morality association ( Sittlichkeitsverein ), who had committed a grave offence against the principles of such an association, say: "Being moral, I can manage that alone in my room, but that has no educational value. The main thing

4636-444: The university were the usual ones, so much so that I don't need to describe them. From 1890, he worked as a legal intern at Traunstein . At the same time he wrote a dissertation on the topic The Theory of Self-Defence with criminal law professor Karl Lueder. On 6 December 1890, he passed the oral exam with the (lowest possible) grade of Rite ("satisfactory"). A handwritten copy of his doctoral thesis with its final correction edits

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4712-458: The vernacular and were then sent to Latin schools. If the parents were financially able, the child went even before he learned to read or write if the opportunity was present. Men were the usual students since women were either taught at home or in nunneries. Subsequent to the Council of Trent 's decision to cloister all female religious, female orders such as Ursulines and Angelicals conducted their own schools within their convents. University

4788-545: The weakness and stupidity of the bourgeois milieu and chauvinistic Prussianism with its ' Pickelhaube ' militarism . He also resented the provincialism and the clerical politics of his time in the Kingdom of Bavaria , which is reflected in Jozef Filser's Briefwexel . His stories spiced with humour and satire or his one-act plays of the rural and small-town environment in Upper Bavaria are regarded as brilliant. His unsentimental descriptions of agrarian life in his novels are therefore particularly true to life, because Thoma

4864-407: The year 1450. Those who did study under this discipline were taught classical literature , history, rhetoric , dialectic , natural philosophy , arithmetic , some medieval texts, Greek as well as modern foreign languages. The use of pagan authors became more common as the church became less involved with the humanistic method used in academic institutions before university. Colloquies (1518),

4940-586: Was Boston Latin School , founded in 1635. These fed early universities such as Harvard , with students capable of speaking, reading and debating in Latin. The challenge to the Latin, Greek and "classical" domination of education came earlier than in Europe, but the tradition continued at a diminished level through the twentieth century. A number of "Latin Schools" still exist in the US, some of which teach Latin, while others do not. Prien am Chiemsee Prien am Chiemsee (official: Prien a.Chiemsee, High German [ priːn ], Bavarian (local) dialect [ breˑɐ̯̃ⁿ ])

5016-408: Was a syntax manual that was memorized, or even more advanced with glossaries and dictionaries. Although many teachers used many books that varied from person to person, the most popular textbook would have been the Doctrinale . The Doctrinale was a long verse of Latin grammar. This textbook dealt with parts of speech, syntax, quantity and meter, as well as figures of speech. The Doctrinale as well as

5092-572: Was able to gain a wealth of practical insights into living conditions in the country from his work as a lawyer. The Bavarian dialect is rendered as concisely as that in Georg Queri's works. Based on his articles in the Miesbacher Anzeiger (1920–1921), a 1989 article in Der Spiegel accused Ludwig Thoma of becoming an angry anti-Semite and to have developed into a pioneer of Hitler . Lawyer Otto Gritschneder highlights his six-week imprisonment in Munich-Stadelheim (1906) and "the extremely anti-Semitic and vulgar anti-democratic essays by Thoma's from

5168-479: Was adapted into an animated short film released in 1962, the Lausbubengeschichten ( Tales of a Rascal ) and Jozef Filsers Briefwexel ( Jozef Filser's Letters ). Lausbubengeschichten was made into a movie in 1964, also released in English under the title Tales of a Young Scamp  [ de ] . Ludwig Thoma was born as the fifth child of forester Max Thoma and his wife Katharina Thoma, née Pfeiffer, in Oberammergau . His paternal ancestors were active in

5244-444: Was attributed to the Medieval preference for hierarchal organization. Studia Humanitatis was the new curriculum founded in the Early Modern Era by humanists . In order to be able to move forward academically, a firm foundation in Studia Humanitatis starting from elementary school was necessary. Those who studied under Ars Dictaminis but did not have this background found it difficult to get accepted into chanceries following

5320-453: Was found in Thoma's estate; However, Thoma never had them printed and therefore did not receive a doctorate certificate. Strictly speaking, he was therefore wrong to claim a doctorate. In April 1895, Ritter published Thoma's short story "Der Truderer" in the literary supplement Sammler , in which cheerful events of rural life were recorded for the first time in prose form. Ludwig Thoma also commented on political issues, writing an article about

5396-401: Was seen as a method of persuasion and so there were five distinct aspects of Ars Dictaminis that assured this. These five elements were: "how to word a question; how to dispose material; how to find the right words and effective stylistic devices; how to commit everything to memory; how to find the right intonation and suitable gestures". During the Renaissance however, rhetoric developed into

5472-490: Was shot dead in Promenadenstrasse ). He called Eisner himself a "Jewish pig", whose murder he described as an "execution". And Thoma insulted Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse with the words "Rascal with your curly hair and your progressive motion scissors"; Kurt Tucholsky he denigrated as a "little Galician cripple". (c.f. also the reaction Thomas wrote anonymously in the Miesbacher Anzeiger on 2 February 1921 to

5548-469: Was soon bored and by 1911 Thoma and Marietta were divorced. In the later years of his life, he wrote nationalistic propaganda agitating against left-wing politicians (e.g. for the newspaper Miesbacher Anzeiger ). During World War I he served as a medical orderly . In July 1917 he joined the German Fatherland Party . His best-known works are Der Münchner im Himmel ( The Munich Man in Heaven ), which

5624-727: Was the grammar school of 14th- to 19th-century Europe, though the latter term was much more common in England. Other terms used include Lateinschule in Germany, or later Gymnasium . Latin schools were also established in Colonial America . Emphasis was placed on learning Latin , initially in its Medieval Latin form. Grammar was the most basic part of the trivium and the Liberal arts . Latin schools aimed to prepare students for university, as well as seeking to enable those of middle-class status to rise above their station. It

5700-550: Was the final stage of academic learning and within its walls Latin was the language of lectures and scholarly debates. Jews however, including those who were converted into Christianity , were not allowed to teach so they developed their own schools which taught Doctrine, Hebrew and Latin . Latin schools, on the same model, were founded in North America, importing the European methods of education. The first of these

5776-455: Was therefore not unusual for children of commoners to attend Latin schools, especially if they were expected to pursue a career within the church. Although Latin schools existed in many parts of Europe in the 14th-century and were more open to the laity, prior to that the Church allowed for Latin schools for the sole purpose of training those who would one day become clergymen. Latin schools began to develop to reflect Renaissance humanism around

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