Academic Gymnasium Gdansk
The Academic Gymnasium Gdansk was a higher school in the city of Gdansk , which existed from June 13, 1558 until March 1945. For a long time it had a college-like character. From the 19th century the name was the Städtisches Gymnasium Gdansk , next to which the Royal Gymnasium still existed in the city.
history
The Academic Gymnasium was built under the mayors of Gdańsk Constantin Ferber and Georg Kleefeld in 1558. At the beginning, the school was started in the building of the dissolved Franciscan monastery as an academic high school with initially a rector and three professors. The aim was to train the evangelical clergy for this region. The first rector was the humanist Achatius Curaeus , whom Johann Hoppe advised. At the end of the 16th century there were six professors, including Johannes Mathesius the Younger . Rector from 1580 to 1629 was the theologian and pastor of the Trinity Church Jacob Fabritius , who temporarily increased the number of students to over 100. His vice-principal from 1602 was the philosopher Bartholomäus Keckermann . During this time, the Reformed denomination prevailed , with sometimes violent demonstrations of disapproval from the Lutheran townspeople.
The school had an important position for the Baltic Sea region in the 17th and 18th centuries, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius and the later poets Andreas Gryphius and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau studied here with Peter Crüger, among others . The high school attracted an average of 400 pupils and students from far away. Under the rectors Johann Botsack (1631–1643) and Abraham Calov (1643–1650) the Lutherans prevailed again. Aegidius Strauch (1669–1682), who as rector, improved the quality of teaching and the discipline of the students, played an important role .
In the 18th century, pietism was also evident at the grammar school, which the rector and pastor Samuel Schelwig (1643–1715) had fought intensely but in vain. The historian Michael Christoph Hanow headed the school from 1717, the historian Gottfried Lengnich worked as an enlightened pioneer for Polish historiography. After 1800 the school went almost completely.
In 1817, under August Meineke, it was converted into a Prussian humanistic grammar school without reference to the Trinity Pastorate, and in 1837 a new building, partially donated by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV . The students included the journalist Samuel Kokosky , the doctor and translator August Hermann Ewerbeck , the historian and lawyer Gottfried Lengnich , the satirist Johannes Trojan , the psychologist and opponent of scientific teacher training Hugo Münsterberg and the sociologist René König .
Lessons were held until the conquest by the Red Army in March 1945. The building on Winterplatz planned by Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1835–1837 (previously: Buttermarkt, today: targ maslany ) is still there.
In 1910 the following schools in Danzig were subordinate to the Provincial School College:
- Humanistic Gymnasium : Municipal Gymnasium and Royal Gymnasium;
- Realgymnasium : Johannisschule, Danzig- Langfuhr ;
- Oberrealschule : St. Petri and Pauli School ;
- Progymnasium : Berent , Langfuhr ( Conradinum , previously in Jenkau, since 1900 in Langfuhr).
Personalities
Teacher
- Christopherus Riccius (1590–1643), from 1619 Professor of History and Jurisprudence
- Daniel Lagus (1618–1678), 1640–1658 professor of mathematics, physics, logic, poetry and Greek
- Aegidius Strauch (1669–1682), rector
- Johann Christoph Rosteuscher (1657–1708), Professor of Logic (1686–1690) and Greek (1690–1695)
- Heinrich Kühn (1690–1769), professor of mathematicians
- Michael Christoph Hanow (1695–1773), from 1727 professor of philosophy
- Gottlieb Wernsdorf (1717–1774), from 1743 professor of oriental languages
- Carl Gottlieb Strauss (1743–1790), from 1774 professor of philosophy
- Johann Georg Trendelenburg (1757–1825), professor of Greek and Oriental languages
- Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck (1761–1837), mathematics professor (1789–1817) and director (1814–1817)
- Johann August Lehmann (1802–1883), philologist, teacher / senior teacher 1825–1836
- Franz Brandstäter (1815–1883), from 1838 teacher of Greek, Latin and French
student
- Petrus Mederus (1602–1678), poet, teacher and clergyman
- Reinhold Pauli (1638–1682), Reformed theologian, preacher and university professor
- Gottfried Reyger (1704–1788), botanist and naturalist
- Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring (1710–1792), doctor and natural scientist
- Johann Gottfried Reyger (1725–1793), last mayor of the Free City of Danzig
- Johann Uphagen (1731–1802), ship owner, merchant and bibliophile collector
- Peter Bienemann von Bienenstamm (1749–1798), high lawyer, German-Balte
- Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), writer, hymn poet and founder of youth social work
- Ernst Strehlke (1834–1869), historian and archivist (German Order)
- John Muhl (1879–1943), regional historian from Gdansk
- Horst Ehmke (1927–2017), German politician
literature
In order of appearance.
- Senate of the Gymnasium in Gdansk: Acta jubilaei secundi gymnasii Gedanensis anno domini MDCCLVIII. Danzig 1759 ( digitized version ).
- Bicentennial jubilee of the Academic Gymnasium in Danzig (celebratory speech given on June 13, 1758 in the Academic Gymnasium). In: Nova acta historico-ecclesiastica. Collection of the latest church histories . 2nd volume: 9-16 Part . Weimar 1760, therein 11th part, pp. 326–373 ( digitized version ).
- Benjamin G. Sievert: Cantata set to music and performed . [Ceremonial poem for the inauguration of Dr. phil. Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck on September 3, 1789]. Wedel, Danzig 1790.
- Theodor Hirsch : History of the academic high school in Danzig . Danzig 1837 ( digitized version ).
- Bernhard Schulz (Ed.): 425 years of the Danzig City High School. 1558-1983. Commemorative publication for alumni and friends of the school . Deutscher Betriebswirte-Verlag, Gernsbach 1983.
- Martin Brecht u. a. (Ed.): History of Pietism , Vol. 1: Pietism from the seventeenth to the early eighteenth century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-55343-9 .
- Siegfried Wollgast: Philosophy in Germany between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, 1550–1650 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002099-7 .
- Sven Tode : Education and knowledge culture of the clergy in Gdansk in the early modern period . In: Herman Johan Selderhuis , Markus Wriedt (Hrsg.): Education and denomination. Theological training in the age of confessionalization . Siebeck Mohr, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148931-4 , pp. 61-101.
- Wolfgang Armin Strauch: Dr. Aegidius Strauch - prisoner of the Elector of Brandenburg . tredition GmbH, Hamburg o. J.
