Absolutorium

In the German-speaking world, officially recognized final certificates from the grammar school ( school leaving certificate , grammar school graduate certificate or Matura certificate , today: Abitur ) and the university ( university graduate diploma , today e.g. state examination ) are referred to as the Absolutorium (sometimes also: Absolutōrium; Latin) . They were issued at the end of a training course after an examination and were the prerequisite for admission to the course (also for one-year voluntary service in the army and navy) or for professional practice / title management.

In Austria as well as some countries (e.g. Poland , Czech Republic ) the term is still used today in higher education. In Poland, the term also describes the discharge of individual or collegial legal bodies .

Individual evidence

^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1905, p. 54
^ FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna , 14th edition, 1994–1996, 1st volume, p. 47 (→ Abitur graduates )
^ Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888 , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, 4th edition, 1885–1892, p. 5674 (→ discharge examination )

[1] Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1905, p. 54

[2] FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna , 14th edition, 1994–1996, 1st volume, p. 47 (→ Abitur graduates )

[3] Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888 , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, 4th edition, 1885–1892, p. 5674 (→ discharge examination )