Aegidianum

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Aegidienkirche and former monastery building in Nuremberg in the 16th century, reconstruction by Gottlieb Bäumler in 1846
Egidienkirche and grammar school as new baroque buildings. Copper engraving by Johann Adam Delsenbach around 1711

The Aegidianum , Egidiengymnasium or Altes Gymnasium in Nuremberg was one of the leading schools in Protestant Germany in the 17th century. It was set up in the course of the Reformation of the imperial city next to the Church of St. Egidien in the former Egidien monastery in Nuremberg .

history

The Egidiengymnasium was first founded - in May 1526 with the participation of a number of well-known humanists and reformers , including Melanchthon and Luther - only lasted for nine years. It was set up in the former monastery on Egidienberg, which had been vacant since the Scots monks moved out in 1525 and had become the property of the city.

The second attempt by the company led to the founding of the University of Altdorf in 1575 , from which the Nuremberg Aegidianum split off in 1633 - a school that placed particular emphasis on a modern canon .

School lessons also included theater performances. Johann Klaj wrote pieces for the " auditorium publicum egidianum " newly founded by Johann Michael Dilherr . In the second half of the 17th century, the grammar school showed itself to be open to the modern belles lettres : lessons in the national language, letter style and poetry were part of the canon. Samuel Faber developed here from 1690 to 1716 influence. At the same time - there was a connection to the observatory - modern mathematics and natural science came into the classroom.

Famous students included Johann Christoph Arnschwanger (1625–1690), Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundlingius (1671–1729), Peter Kolb (1675–1726), Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677–1750), later mathematics lecturer at the grammar school, Johann Friedrich Riederer (1678– 1734), Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727).

Since 1933 the school, which in 1911 had moved from its historic location next to the Egidienkirche to Sulzbacher Strasse due to lack of space, has been called Melanchthon-Gymnasium . The parish of St. Egidien, in cooperation with the Melanchthon-Gymnasium, has been organizing annual educational speeches for the city since 2016, on the way to the 500th anniversary of the school in 2026 and following the founding speech of Philipp Melanchthon on May 23, 1526.

The historic buildings of the Aegidianum are now part of the Willstätter Gymnasium .

literature

  • Markus Paul: Imperial city and drama. Theatrical art in Nuremberg in the 17th century (= early modern times. Volume 69). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-36569-2 (At the same time: Dissertation, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1999/2000) ( preview in the Google book search).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Gymnasium St. Egidii” and “ auditorium publicum egidianum ”. Markus Paul: Imperial city and drama. 2002, p. 245 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Markus Paul: Imperial City and Drama. 2002, pp. 235–280 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Nuremberg educational speeches. In: mgn2026.de. Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg, accessed on January 10, 2018.