Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna)

The Academic Gymnasium in Vienna was founded in 1553 and is the oldest high school in Vienna and is the second oldest of the five academic schools in Austria. The school orientation is humanistic and compared with other traditional high schools of the city rather liberal. The current number of students is about 610 students, divided on 24 classes.

  • 2.1 year of birth before 1800
  • 2.2 year of birth 1800-1849
  • 2.3 year of birth 1850-1899
  • 2.4 year of birth 1900-1949
  • 2.5 year of birth from 1950

History

16th and 17th centuries

Establishing time of the high school, the University of Vienna had the privilege of setting up educational institutions to decide. In March of 1553, the Jesuits received permission from the university to the establishment of the Academic Gymnasium.

The primary objectives of teaching exclusively Jesuit faculty was the provision of religious instruction, the practice of the Catholic faith and the strengthening of the religious attitude of the students. The Academic High School was housed at the time of its foundation in the Dominican monastery against the then university. The former language of instruction was Latin.

18th and 19th centuries

The dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV led to a conversion of the teaching staff and educational goals. The new focus was on history, mathematics, German, literature and geography. The management of the school was transferred to the Piarist. Subsequently, the school was somewhat cosmopolitan passed and the spirit of the Enlightenment prevailed both among teachers and among the students. Likewise, new didactic and educational measures, and later the school fees were introduced.

As a result of high school reform in 1849, the eight-year school with the final Matura examination was developed. The humanistic aspects crystallized out and on, the focus of teaching was primarily linguistic- historical, wherein the mathematical and scientific aspects were not neglected. The first high school graduates made ​​their final exams at the end of the school 1850 /51.

Since 1866, the building of the Academic Gymnasium located at Beethovenplatz in the first district of Vienna. It was built by Friedrich von Schmidt, who also designed the Vienna Town Hall, in his typical neo-Gothic style.

The first students matured in 1886 and 1887 (one Externistin ), since the school year 1896/97 there were almost every year, school graduates; a general admission of girls there since 1949 /50.

20th century

The years following the First World War were extremely distressing for the high school, because you could just barely missed a closure, the cause was a strong decline in students. The educational institution threatened their reputation and their attractiveness to lose.

After the "Anschluss " of Austria in 1938, the Jewish students had to leave school, they were retrained on 28 April 1938 a part of the student but had resigned before this date. The total loss amounted to nearly 50 percent of the students, because the school was attended most of all Viennese schools of children of Jewish families. Today, several commemorative plaques recall the exterior facade of the high school to the then retraining and the horrors of Nazism. A well-known victim of that action was the future Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, who had to quit school in the 5th grade.

Wolfgang Wolf Ring (1925-2001) made ​​the high school from 1960 known as the site of a classical Greek drama performances in ancient Greek original language. Annually found performances instead of the classical Greek dramatic literature, including King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes by Sophocles, the Oresteia of Aeschylus and Euripides' Trojan Women and Alcestis. Protagonists of these performances were later Lawyers Josef and Eduard Wegrostek, Liliana Nelska, Doris Dornetshuber, Gerhard Tötschinger, but in smaller roles also Gabriel Barylli, Paulus Manker, Konstantin Schenk and others.

Over the years the school acquired the old reputation back and enjoyed high access rates. Increasingly, the emphasis was placed on the humanistic education, which was demonstrated especially by the wide range of languages ​​, school theater performances at a high level and numerous musical events of the school choir, and the general public.

21st Century

The focus is still on to their linguistic foundation, which also includes an education in languages ​​such as Latin or Greek. The school offers both French and English from the first grade. The other of the two languages ​​began as early as the 2nd class.

In addition to this wide range of projects are organized and offered voluntary activities. The goal of the Academic Gymnasium is the general education, which in turn is intended to prepare for a later university studies.

One problem is the lack of space the school. Since a large demand for school places is, the school house for financial reasons and for reasons of preservation but is not expandable, non- school places are available for all Shoo advertisers.

Known students and graduates

The Academic High School has produced a large number of public figures in its history:

Birth year before 1800

  • Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862), writer
  • Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger (1795-1871), geologist
  • Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568), Catholic saint
  • Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), painter
  • Joseph Othmar Rauscher (1797-1875), Archbishop of Vienna
  • Franz Schubert (1797-1828), composer
  • Johann Carl Smirsch (1793-1869), painter

Birth cohort 1800-1849

  • Alexander Freiherr von Bach (1813-1893), lawyer and politician
  • Moriz Benedikt (1835-1920), a neurologist
  • Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900), industrialist and art patron
  • Franz Serafin Exner (1802-1853), philosopher
  • Cajetan Felder (1814-1894), mayor of Vienna
  • Adolf Ficker (1816-1880), statistician
  • Anton Josef Nanny (1820-1911), Archbishop of Vienna
  • Carl Haslinger (1816-1868), a music publisher
  • Gustav Heider (1819-1897), Art History
  • Josef Hellmesberger (1828-1893), Kapellmeister
  • Josef Hyrtl (1810-1894), anatomist
  • Friedrich Kaiser (1814-1874), actor
  • Theodor von Karajan (1810-1873), German scholar
  • Alfred von Kremer (1828-1889), orientalist and politician
  • Kürnberger Ferdinand (1821-1879), writer
  • Henry of Levitschnigg (1810-1862), writer and journalist
  • Robert von Lieben (1848-1913), physicist and inventor
  • Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877), Astronomer
  • Titu Maiorescu (1840-1917), Romanian Prime Minister
  • Johann Nestroy (1801-1862), actor, poet
  • Ignaz von Plener (1810-1908), Prime Minister of Austria
  • Johann Nepomuk Prix (1836-1894), mayor of Vienna
  • Benedict Randhartinger (1802-1893), Kapellmeister
  • Friedrich Rochleder (1819-1874), Chemist
  • Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886), German scholar
  • Anton Schmerling (1805-1893), lawyer and politician
  • Leopold Schrötter, Knights of Kristelli (1837-1908), doctor ( laryngologist ) and social medicine
  • Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804-1875), lyricist of the Austrian imperial anthem " God save, God defend our Emperor, our country! "
  • Daniel Spitzer (1835-1893), author
  • Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), composer and conductor
  • Franz von Thun und Hohenstein (1847-1916), Prime Minister of Cisleithania
  • Joseph Unger (1828-1913), lawyer and politician
  • Otto Wagner (1841-1918), architect

Birth cohort 1850-1899

  • Othenio Abel (1875-1946), biologist
  • Ludwig Adamovich senior (1890-1955), President of the Constitutional Court
  • Guido Adler (1855-1941), musicologist
  • Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), " coffee-house writer "
  • Max Wladimir von Beck (1854-1943), Austrian Prime Minister
  • Richard Beer -Hofmann (1866-1945), writer
  • Julius Bittner (1874-1939), composer
  • Robert Dannenberg (1885-1942), lawyer and politician
  • Konstantin Dumba (1856-1947), diplomat
  • August Fournier (1850-1920), historian and politician
  • Erich Frauwallner (1898-1974), Indologist
  • Dagobert Frey (1883-1962), art historian
  • Albert Gessmann (1852-1920), librarian and politician
  • Raimund Grübl (1847-1898), mayor of Vienna
  • Michael Hainisch (1858-1940), President of the Republic of Austria
  • Edmund Hauler (1859-1941), classical scholar
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), playwright
  • Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), philosopher and politician
  • Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), lawyer, co-designer of the Austrian Federal Constitution
  • Franz Klein (1854-1926), lawyer and politician
  • Arthur Krupp (1856-1938), industrialist
  • Wilhelm Kubitschek (1858-1936), archaeologist and numismatist
  • Eduard Leisching (1858-1938), director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
  • Felix from Luschan (1854-1924), doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer
  • Eugen Margaretha (1885-1963), lawyer and politician
  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), founder of Czechoslovakia and President
  • Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), philosopher
  • Lise Meitner (1878-1968), nuclear physicist
  • Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), economist
  • Paul Morgan (1886-1938), actor
  • Max von Oberleithner (1868-1935), composer and conductor
  • Paul Pisk Amadeus (1893-1990), composer
  • Gabriele Possanner (1860-1940), physician
  • Hans Leo Przibram (1874-1944), zoologist
  • Karl Przibram (1878-1973), Physicist
  • Josef Redlich (1869-1936), lawyer and politician
  • Elise Richter (1865-1943), Romanistin
  • Josef Freiherr Schey of Koromla (1853-1938), legal scholar
  • Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), writer, playwright
  • Julius Schnitzler (1865-1939), physician
  • Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicist, 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics

Birth cohort 1900-1949

  • Ludwig Adamovich Jr. ( born 1932 ), President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
  • Christian Broda (1916-1987), lawyer and politician
  • Engelbert Broda (1910-1983), physicist, chemist
  • Thomas Canons (* 1932), journalist and newspaper editor
  • Magic Christian (* 1945), Magicians and designers
  • Felix Czeike (1926-2006), historian
  • Helmut German ( b. 1945 ), pianist
  • Albert Drach (1902-1995), writer
  • Paul Edwards (1923-2004), philosopher
  • Caspar Einem ( born 1948 ), Austrian Minister of the Interior, Minister of Transport
  • Ernst Federn (1914-2007), psychoanalyst
  • Friedrich Heer (1916-1983), writer, historian
  • Georg Knepler (1906-2003), musicologist
  • Walter Kohn ( b. 1923 ), physicist, 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), sociologist
  • Lucian O. Meysels (1925-2012), journalist and nonfiction author
  • Liliana Nelska ( born 1946 ), actress
  • Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), physician, representatives of Individual Psychology
  • Ernst Topitsch (1919-2003), philosopher and sociologist
  • Milan Turković (* 1939), Austrian- Croatian Bassoon Brass and Conductor
  • Hans Weigel (1908-1991), writer
  • Erich Wilhelm (1912-2005), Protestant superintendent in Vienna

Year of birth from 1950

  • Gabriel Barylli (* 1957), writer and actor
  • Christiane Druml ( b. 1955 ), lawyer and bioethicist
  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg ( born 1950 ), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community Vienna
  • Paul Gulda ( b. 1961 ), pianist
  • Martin Haselboeck (* 1954), organist
  • Peter Stephan Jungk (* 1952), writer
  • Markus Kupferblum ( b. 1964 ), director
  • Niki List (1956 - 2009), Film Director
  • Miki Malör ( born 1957 ), theater-maker and performer
  • Paulus Manker (born 1958 ), actor and director
  • Andreas Mailath -Pokorny (* 1959), Vienna City Councillor for Culture and Science
  • Doron Rabinovici (* 1961), writer
  • Clemens Under Reiner ( b. 1977 ), opera singer, soloist and ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera
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