Academic high school (Linz)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academic Gymnasium Linz
Linz Academic Gymnasium Spittelwiese 14.jpg
type of school General secondary school
founding 1542
place Linz
state Upper Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 18 '8 "  N , 14 ° 17' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '8 "  N , 14 ° 17' 14"  E
Teachers 53 (2011/12)
management Wolfgang Zechmeister
Website Academic Gymnasium Linz

The Academic School of Linz is a school on the Spittelwiese in the old quarter in the district center . It was founded in 1542 and is the oldest of the five Austrian academic high schools .

history

Originally founded as an Evangelical Landscape School in 1542, it was converted into today's school in the course of the Counter Reformation in the first quarter of the 17th century. Late 16th century was one of the students from Perg Dating Thomas Lansius , who later became professor at the University of Tübingen was. From 1796 to 1854 the school was given the title academic for the first time , and in 1965 it was re-awarded. In 1863 it was elevated to the state high school first class and the teachers were accepted into the state service, which is why it was sometimes called the 1st Federal High School in Linz . The grammar school is the historic main school of the still active Catholic student association Nibelungia 1901 to Linz and the pennalen fraternity of Ostmark.

architecture

The school building in Spittelwiese was built from 1870 to 1872 according to the plans of the architect Karl Stattler and is a listed building . The monumental, palatial corner building in the style of historicism with squared walls and square corners has a slightly protruding, raised, richly structured central projection with a column portal and a balcony above it towards the Spittelwiese. The foyer has a hollow vault and a wreath of stitch caps. The entrance to the staircase is flanked with columns. The two-armed, three-flight monumental staircase with a common entrance has a remarkable cast iron parapet. The stair landings and the corridors are vaulted and partly still have the original delicate decorative painting. The ballroom on the first floor in the neo-renaissance style has a three-portal system and a stage.

Furnishing

There is a Baroque Jesuit theses sheet after Alessandro Marchesini as an engraving from 1732 on loan from the Elisabethinen . There is a student flag of the Academic Gymnasium from 1838 with oil paintings of Saints Catherine and Leopold. Former collections of the school, the library of the Jesuit grammar school, a collection of seals and an autograph collection are now in Linz museums.

school

The Academic Gymnasium has a general educational, ancient language and humanistic focus. English is taught from the first grade, Latin or French from the third. In the fifth grade, students have to choose between Latin, French, and Ancient Greek. A music focus is also offered.

Well-known graduates

List of known people who attended the Akademisches Gymnasium (sorted by year of birth):

Surname Sorting Life dates comment
Johann Christoph Stelzhammer Stilt hammer 1750-1840 Catholic clergyman, physicist and rector of the University of Vienna
Sebastian Schwarz black 1809-1870 Clergyman, founder of the order
Kaspar Schwarz black 1811-1879 Businessman, politician
Ludwig Schlager Bat 1828-1885 psychiatrist
Norbert Hanrieder Hanrieder 1842-1913 Dialect poet
Ludwig Boltzmann Boltzmann 1844-1906 Physicist, mathematician, philosopher
Hans Zötl Zötl 1846-1938 Dialect poet
Rudolph Hittmair Hittmair 1859-1915 Bishop of the Diocese of Linz
Georg Baumgartner Baumgartner 1860-1927 Politician, clergyman
Hermann Bahr Bahr 1863-1934 Writer, theater and literary critic
Max Doblinger Doblinger 1873-1965 Archivist, historian, numismatist
Johann Schober Schober 1874-1932 Federal Chancellor (Austria)
Adolf Eigl Egg 1883-1958 Politician
Karl Jax Jax 1885-1968 classical philologist
Hans Commenda junior Commenda 1889-1971 Local history explorer
Ernst Koref Koref 1891-1988 Mayor of Linz
Heinrich Gleißner Gleissner 1893-1984 Governor of Upper Austria
Nico Dostal Dostal 1895-1981 Operetta and film composer
Josephus Calasanz Fließer Flower 1896-1960 Bishop of the Diocese of Linz
Georg Grüll Grull 1900-1975 historian
Eduard Macku Macku 1901-1999 Composer, conductor, artistic director
Alfred Maleta Maleta 1906-1990 Politician
Geli Raubal Raubal 1908-1931 Adolf Hitler's niece
Franz C. Lipp Lip 1913-2002 Folklorist
Alfred Doppler Doppler 1921 Literary scholar
Rupert Hartl Hartl 1921-2006 Deputy Governor
Erwin Wenzl Wenzl 1921-2005 Governor of Upper Austria
Heinrich Gattermeyer Gattermeyer 1923-2018 Composer, choir director and music teacher
Gottfried Nobl Nobl 1923-2017 Architect and master builder
Hugo Schanovsky Schanovsky 1927-2014 Mayor of Linz
Oskar Welzl Welzl 1928-2019 jurist
Josef Ratzenböck Ratzenböck 1929 Governor of Upper Austria, lawyer
Laurids Ortner Ortner 1941 architect
Hans Pizka Pizka 1942 Musician (horn player)
Wendelin Ettmayer Ettmayer 1943 Diplomat, politician, author
Camillo Gamnitzer Gamnitzer 1951 Chess composer
Ludwig Laher Laher 1955 writer
Bernhard Prokisch Prokish 1957 Art historian, numismatist, Upper Austrian regional museums
Andreas Renoldner Renoldner 1957 writer
Peter Sonnberger Sonnberger 1957 Politician, lawyer
Severin Renoldner Renoldner 1959 Politician and theologian
Thomas Renoldner Renoldner 1960 Film director, film curator
Stefan Ruzowitzky Ruzowitzky 1961 Director, screenwriter
Peter Androsch Androsch 1963 composer
Rainer Siegel seal 1963 writer
Wolfgang Lamprecht Lamprecht 1964 Author, cultural promoter
Roman Haider Haider 1967 Politician, business consultant
Martin Rummel Hype 1974 Musician (cellist)
Rudiger Schender Schender 1974 Politician, lawyer
Gernot Grömer Bigger 1975 Astrophysicist, television presenter
Natalie Halla Halla 1975 Filmmaker
Julia Röper-Kelmayr Röper-Kelmayr 1975 Doctor, politician
Angelika Niedetzky Niedetzky 1979 Cabaret artist

Further graduates (sorted by surname):

  • Michaela Ambos, Editor Woman & News
  • Eduard Arzt (* 1925), musician
  • Wolfgang Doctor, Head of the Institute for Prenatal Medicine
  • Birgit Baumann, correspondent for "Der Standard" in Berlin
  • Nikolaus Böhler, doctor
  • Christina Dolezal, politician
  • Johannes Fellinger, head of the Institute for Sensory and Language Neurology
  • Klaus Führlinger, lawyer and national councilor
  • Georg Hasibeder, percussionist at the RSO
  • Bernhard Hetzenauer, filmmaker
  • Philipp Hirsch, OÖN editor
  • Hans Kafka (* 1921), psychiatrist
  • Christina Maria Kreinecker, consultant theology, University of Salzburg
  • Bernhard Krumphuber, author, BM for Interior
  • Stefan Kunzenberger, writer
  • Verena Levan, translator / interpreter
  • Siegfried Priglinger, Director of the Munich Eye Clinic
  • Gerhard Ransmayr, Head of the Neurology Clinic
  • Eva Reisenberger, "The Time"
  • Christian skull, Cafe Phil Vienna
  • Stefan Schützenhofer (* 1977), management consultant
  • Thomas Schützenhofer, psychiatrist
  • Clemens Steinwender, primary cardiac surgery, Kepler University Clinic
  • Georg Stephanek, bassoon player Graz Philharmonic
  • Vanessa Tockner, translator
  • Martin Treml, Head of Literature and Cultural Research Berlin
  • Gerald Tulzer, Head of the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic
  • Michael Wacha, Primary Surgery in Freistadt
  • Alexander Zambarloukus, editor

Known teachers

Sports

The Akademisches Gymnasium Linz has already taken part in the national hockey championships several times and has often been champions. The Academic Gymnasium also takes part in the indoor school championships (athletics), and here, too, the Gymnasium has won several titles. The soccer championships are almost a tradition at the school, but you couldn't win yet. The Academic Gymnasium has recently started taking part in the state floorball school championships and was able to achieve the lower level title in the first year.

Audio

literature

  • Annual report series of the KK Staats-Gymnasium zu Linz. Linz 1864–1918 ( digitized version , years 1898–1915).
  • Franz Thalmayr, Anton Sauer, Ernst Sewera: Catalog of the teachers' library of the kk state grammar school in Linz. In: Annual report of the KK Staats-Gymnasium zu Linz. Linz 1899, 1901, 1905 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Xaver Lehner: The coin collection of the kk state high school in Linz. In: Annual report of the KK Staats-Gymnasium zu Linz. Linz 1908, pp. 1-24 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Thalmayr: On the forty-year existence of the grammar school building. In: Annual report of the KK Staats-Gymnasium zu Linz. Linz 1914, pp. 25-32 ( digitized version ).
  • Honor roll for former students of the institution who died in the war. In: Annual report of the KK Staats-Gymnasium zu Linz. Linz 1915, pp. 71-73 ( digitized version ).
  • Monika Klepp: The Jewish students of the Linz State Gymnasium in 1938. In: Akademisches Gymnasium (1st Federal High School) Linz (Hrsg.): Annual report on the 2003/2004 school year. Linz 2004, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Linz 2009 . Linz, Upper and Lower Suburbs, buildings in the street association, Spittelwiese No. 14, Academic High School, pp. 302–303.

Web links

Commons : Akademisches Gymnasium Linz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bibliography on 1. Bundesgymnasium Linz in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  2. ^ First academic grammar school in Austria. Austria 1 , audio images, March 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Reconstructing Spittelwiese die-schule.at, accessed on March 21, 2020.