Academic high school (Hamburg)

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The Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg was founded in 1613 and was housed under one roof with the Johanneum Scholars' School , a Latin school . The Gymnasium academicum should take the place between the Latin school and the university. It corresponded to the type of high school illustrious .

history

The Academic Gymnasium, through its foundation since 1610 between the Council and citizenship had been negotiating the city, was inaugurated 1613th However, it did not start teaching until 1615, when a separate lecture hall was set up in an extension to the former Johanniskloster , in which the Johanneum was housed, near the Rathausmarkt . It was supposed to enable the graduates of the Johanneum to prepare for a course of study at a university in their home country and thus prevent the emigration of young men to other schools. The newly founded Academic Gymnasium attracted students from all over Northern Germany from the very beginning.

The four, later six, professors held public lectures. The subjects taught corresponded to those of the basic studies at an artist faculty . These were primarily the languages Greek and Hebrew , from philosophy the subjects logic and ethics as well as mathematics and physics . Occasionally theological lectures were also given by pastors .

In 1628 Joachim Jungius became rector of the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium . Under his rectorate until 1657, the grammar school also attracted students who had already attended a university or who did not come from Hamburg or the surrounding area. He founded a second scientific chair, which he also occupied himself.

The professorship for oriental languages , which was primarily responsible for the Hebrew language and the interpretation of Old Testament books, was vacant for a long time after the death of the first owner, Pastor Heinrich Rump, in 1626. It was not until 1652 that it could be occupied again by Aegidius Gutbier . Gutbier also offered lectures in Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic, in which he dealt with excerpts from the Koran . His successors Eberhard Anckelmann (from 1667) and Johann Friedrich Winckler (1704–1712) also read primarily about the Old Testament books, but occasionally also gave lectures on their main research interests in other oriental languages. After Johann Christoph Wolf moved to the main pastorate at the Katharinenkirche in 1716, the long-time professor of history and Greek, Georg Elieser Edzard , changed the chair. Michael Richey has been named to succeed him in History and Greek . The Talmud was at the center of Edzard's interest . So he included rabbinical comments in his exegesis of the Old Testament. His successor was Hermann Samuel Reimarus in 1727 .

In 1837 Karl Wiebel became a professor of mathematics and physics. At that time the Academic Gymnasium only had 18 students. Wiebel founded the chemical laboratory and the physical cabinet. As the decline of the grammar school was in sight, the city took over both facilities in 1874 as state laboratories. From them the departments of chemistry and physics at the University of Hamburg developed .

Since the middle of the 19th century, the academic high school has noticeably lost its importance. The Academic Gymnasium was canceled in 1883 after barely students in recent years enrolled had.

Professors and students

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Rainer Postel : From the Johanneum to the Academic Gymnasium . In: Johann Anselm Steiger (Hrsg.): The Academic Gymnasium zu Hamburg (founded 1613) in the context of early modern history of science and education , pp. 45–60 (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  2. ↑ Asaph Ben-Tov: Oriental studies at Hamburg's Academic Gymnasium from the beginning to the appointment of Reimarus . In: Johann Anselm Steiger (Hrsg.): The Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg (founded 1613) in the context of the early modern history of science and education , pp. 119-136; Pp. 124–126 (accessed via De Gruyter online)
  3. ↑ Asaph Ben-Tov: Oriental studies at Hamburg's Academic Gymnasium from the beginning to the appointment of Reimarus . In: Johann Anselm Steiger (Hrsg.): The Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg (founded 1613) in the context of the early modern history of science and education , pp. 119-136; Pp. 131–135 (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  4. ↑ The Academic and Real-Gymnasium in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de
  5. ↑ Names of the teachers see: B. Das Gymnasium , in: Hamburgischer Staats-Kalender to the year 1857 , teaching and educational institutions, Nestler & Melle, Hamburg, p. 68, ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DCoWQjGkzNloC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA68~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D )
  6. ↑ according to Law on the dissolution of the grammar school and changes in the organization of the scientific institutions of May 21, 1883.

Web links

Wikisource: Ordinance des Gymnasii (Hamburg)  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Index scholarum in Gymnasio Hamburgensium Academico  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Index praelectionum in Gymnasio Hamburgensium Academico  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Directory of the public and private lectures that are held at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium from Easter ... to Easter ...  - sources and full texts