Hofwil

Hofwil is a settlement in the area of Münchenbuchsee in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland.

In and around the 1784 to 1786, which was designed by Carl Ahasuerus Sinners Castle educator Philipp Emanuel of Fellberg built in 1799 a model farm, and among others, along with Johann Jacob Wehrli different schools, gained international fame.

Since 1884 Hofwil is the seat of government Bernese teacher seminar. That was in 1997 with the redesign of high school education and teacher education a choice of musical grammar school with boarding facilities. Since 1998, the school offers a first class train to talent in music, sports figures or. 2009, the school Hofwil of Swiss Olympic with the quality label was "Swiss Olympic Partner School " award.

1905 to 1916 served as director of the Teachers' College in Hofwil Dr. Ernst Schneider, the supporters of free money theory and psychoanalysis was.

Known students and teachers

  • Ernst Baertschi
  • Arthur Bill
  • Jörg Ewald Dähler
  • Jakob Egger
  • Friedrich Eymann
  • Georg Friedrich Heilmann
  • Victor Aimé Huber
  • Simon Gfeller
  • Stefano Jacini
  • Armin Hofer Wall
  • Christoph Merian
  • Hans mill stone
  • Jamal Othman
  • François Jules Pictet de la Rive
  • Hans Saner
  • Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure
  • Gustav Schübler
  • Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis
  • Hans Zulliger
  • Hans Klee (father of Paul Klee )
  • Johann Kaspar Straub ( later to become the founder of the private clinic Wyss, Münchenbuchsee )
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