Academic Gymnasium Danzig

The Academic Gymnasium Danzig was a higher school of the city of Danzig, which consisted of 13 June 1558 and in March 1945. For a long time it had a high school-like character. From the 19th century, the name was Urban School Gdansk, nor was next to the Royal Grammar School in the town.

History

At the beginning of the school operation started in the building of the dissolved Franciscan monastery as an academic secondary school with a first rector and three professors. The goal was the formation of the Protestant clergy for this region. The first rector was the humanist Achatius Curaeus, the Johann Hoppe advised. End of the 16th century, six professors were active, including Johannes Mathesius the Younger. Rector from 1580 to 1629 was the theologian and pastor of Holy Trinity Church Jacob Fabritius, which temporarily increased the number of students to over 100. His vice-principal from 1602 was the philosopher Bartholomew Keckermann. During this time, the prevailing Calvinist denomination, under partly violent disapproval of the Lutheran city population. The school had in the 17th and 18th centuries an important position for the Baltic Sea Region, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius and the later poet Andreas Gryphius and Christian Hoffmann von Waldau Hoffmann studied here, thus in Peter Crüger. The school attracted an average of 400 students from afar. Among the rectors Botsack Johann (1631-1643) and Abraham Calov (1643-1650) sat down again by the Lutherans. In the 18th century, Pietism also at the high school, which the Rector and Pastor Samuel Schelwig ( 1643-1715 ) showed intense, but had fought in vain. The historian Michael Christoph Hanow led the school in 1717, the historian Gottfried Lengnich worked as an enlightened pioneer of Polish historiography. After 1800, the school system was an almost complete.

1817 under Augustus Meineke conversion Prussian human High School without reference to the Trinity pastorate, a 1837 by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV, donated building was partially based. Among the students included, among others, the journalist Samuel Kokosky, the physician and translator August Hermann Ewerbeck, the historian and jurist Gottfried Lengnich, the satirist John Trojan, the psychologist and opponents of scientific education teacher Hugo Münsterberg and the sociologist René König.

Until the conquest by the Red Army in March 1945, classes were held. The Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1835-1837 planned building at the Winter Course ( previously: butter market today: targ Maslany ) is still preserved.

The provincial education college in 1910 were under the following schools in Gdansk:

  • Humanistic Gymnasium: Municipal High School and Royal Grammar School;
  • Real High School: Locust School, Gdansk - long transit;
  • Secondary school: St. Peter and Paul School;
  • Progymnasium: Berent, long vehicle ( Conradinum, previously in Jenkau since 1900 in long vehicle ).

Personalities

Teacher

  • Daniel Lagus, 1640-58 Professor of mathematics, physics, logic, poetry and Greek
  • Gottlieb Werndorf (1717-1774), since 1743 professor of oriental languages
  • Johann Georg Trendelenburg (1757-1825), professor of Greek and Oriental Languages
  • Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck (1761-1837), professor of mathematics (1789-1817) and Director (1814-1817)
  • Franz fire perpetrator (1815-1883), teacher (from 1838)
Gdańsk June 13 Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau Abraham Calovius Frederick William IV of Prussia Wrzeszcz Integrated Authority File
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