Felbiger proposed to extend his school reforms to the military academies. Maria Theresa and her minister Franz Sales Greiner protected Felbiger from the opposition at court, but his plan for reform of the military academies was dropped. After Maria Theresa´s death, Felbiger´s strictly religious principles education aroused the opposition of her successor Joseph II, who removed him from his position, and re-assigned him to look after educational interests in Hungary (1782). In 1776 Felbiger with members of the Illyrian Court Deputation wrote the procedures for elementary schools for Orthodox children in Banat, which were published in German and Serbian. The chief peculiarity of Felbiger's too mechanical method was the use of tables containing the initials of the words which expressed the lesson to be imparted. Other features were the substitution of class-instruction for individual instruction and the practice of questioning the pupils. He aimed at raising the social standing, financial condition, and professional qualification of the teaching body, at giving a friendly character to the mutual relations between teacher and pupil. For a list of his 78 publications, which are mainly of a pedagogical character, see Panholzer's Methodenbuch (46-66). He died on May 17, 1788, at Presburg in Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia). References Sources 1724 births 1788 deaths German abbots Augustinian friars People from Głogów People from Prussian Silesia