Warsaw Lyceum
Royal Prussian Lyzäum to Warsaw (Polish: Królewsko - Pruskie Liceum Warszawskie ), from 1807 onwards only Liceum Warszawskie ( Lyzäum Warsaw ) was a Warsaw secondary school for boys, which existed from 1803 to 1831.
Historical Summary
After the third partition of Poland in 1795, the largest part of western Poland was the former capital city of Warsaw under Prussian rule and was divided into two administrative districts, with East Prussia and South Prussia Warsaw as the capital with the capital in Kalisz. The Prussian authorities were achieved early effort to educate the Polish youth to loyal subjects of the Prussian crown and created in 1793 a cadet school in Kalisz ( the earlier than Warsaw became Prussian ). This institution, with German as the language of instruction in the higher years had to train as an end, young Polish nobles to future officers of the Prussian army. 1803 began to plan the opening of a new Prussian middle school, the time should train young people from the upper middle class of the former Polish capital. With the guidance and organization of the school of well-known German -born scholar Samuel Gottlieb Linde was entrusted, the continuously held the function of rector until the dissolution of the school. The school had mainly a humanistic character, the whole lesson ( except Polish lessons) was issued in German language: you taught Latin, Greek, Polish, German, French, philosophy and ethics, and next to mathematics, science and technology, moreover, music, horse riding and dance. The school had six classes and two preparatory classes.
This Prussian system was used until 1807, after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, the German language of instruction was abolished and adapted the training to the French system.
The students came mostly from well-off districts of the Warsaw -born German bourgeoisie ( therefore had no problems with German language of instruction ) and about 80% were Protestant. A smaller proportion were Catholics, also of German origin families, then the sons of German - Polish mixed marriages (usually with a German mother) and a few percent of Jews, who were also German.
Among the well-known teachers included, among others, Nicolas Chopin, a French teacher, Friedrich Karl Hauke (father of Hans Moritz Hauke ), mathematics teachers, and of course Samuel Gottlieb Linde itself known students have included Frédéric Chopin, musicians, Zygmunt Krasinski, poets and Leopold Kronenberg, banker.
Until 1817, the school was located in the north wing of the Saxon Palace, which was rented by the Wettin dynasty, after purchasing the palace for government purposes Congress Poland she moved into the Kazimierz Palace. The professors of the Lyzäums had their official residences in the school building, the father of Frédéric Chopin, Nicolas, a French teacher at Lyzäum, had established even in his apartments in the two palaces, a small board for students from the area around Warsaw.
A very large proportion of the graduates and students of the Lyzäums joined in 1830 the Polish November Uprising of. As a " plague and trouble spot ", the school was closed by the victorious Tsarist authorities and in " I. Gouvernementgymnasium " turns, which was organized by the Russian model.