Old Town High School (Königsberg)

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The Altstädtische Gymnasium or Palaeopolitanum Regiomonti Gymnasium was the second oldest high school in Königsberg in East Prussia , located in the Altstadt district .

history

The grammar school was founded as a learned Latin school in 1525, which goes back to the old town parish school, first mentioned in 1376. From 1811 it was reopened as a grammar school in the Königsberg school plan following the new humanist reform ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt .

Because of its humanistic educational ideals, it was considered an elite institution in the province of East Prussia and Germany , alongside the Collegium Fridericianum and the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium . On January 6, 1923, it was merged with the Kneiphöfischen Gymnasium to form the Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof. The common school building was that of the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium. The vacated building continued to be used by the Körte-Oberlyzeum from 1925 .

During the air raids on Königsberg in the night of 29./30. In August 1944 the school building was badly damaged by British bombs and burned down completely. School operations were resumed in October 1944 in a replacement building for the two humanistic grammar schools (Stadtgymnasium and Friedrichskollegium) and maintained until January 1945. On January 23, 1945, by order of the authorities, all schools in the city were closed and the old town high school ceased to exist.

Personalities

Teacher

  • Johann Michael Hamann (1769–1813), son of the philosopher Hamann, friend of Kant, poet and pedagogue, 1794 vice rector through Kant and Hamann's friend von Hippel, 1796–1813 rector with innovative ideas
  • Christoph Wilhelm Busolt (1771–1831), reform pedagogue, 1788–1798 teacher
  • Friedrich Ellendt (1796–1855), classical philologist, 1819–1821 assistant teacher, 1821–1835 senior teacher
  • Ernst Ellendt (1803–1863), classical philologist, 1838–1863 director
  • Carl Ludwig Bender (1811–1893), senior teacher, manor owner at the Catharinenhof near Tharau, district of Königsberg
  • Julius Rupp (1809–1884), theologian, publicist and private lecturer at the Albertina
  • Rudolf Möller (1815–1885), philologist; Director and chronicler of the school
  • Georg Bujack (1835-1891), senior teacher, prehistoric
  • O. Retzlaff , professor, senior teacher around 1885
  • Heinrich Babucke (1841–1902), classical philologist, high school director, successor to Möller
  • Richard Armstedt (1851–1931), senior teacher, historian
  • Georg Lejeune Dirichlet (1858–1920), director, head of city council in Königsberg
  • Emil Doerstling (1859–1940), painter ( Kant and his table companions , 1892)
  • Eduard Loch (1868–1945), classical philologist, senior teacher (1900) and high school professor (1908)
  • Arthur Mentz (1882–1957), educator, theologian and historian, D. Dr., 1921–1945 head of the school, resisted joining the NSDAP until the end, passionate stenographer and shorthand historian, teacher of Johannes Bobrowski (Johannes Bobrowski, Briefe 1937–1965 , Ed. Jochen Meyer, Vol. III, Göttingen 2017, p. 384), senior director since 1932; Editor of the announcements "Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof", especially the special issue for the 600 year celebration (December 8, 1933, Bobrowski chronicle by Eberhard Haufe) as a school anniversary (6th year, No. 4, November 1933)
  • Georg Christoph Pisanski (1725–1790)
  • Max Sellnick (1884–1971), mite researcher
  • Reinhard Adam, Bobrowkis class teacher, previously in Tilsit Lehrer (Johannes Bobrowski, Briefe 1937–1965, Ed. Jochen Meyer, Vol. III, Göttingen 2017, p. 434),

student

In alphabetic order

See also

literature

In order of appearance

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Faber: The main and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. The strangest thing in history. Description and chronicle of the city . Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1840, p. 45. It may have been founded in the 13th century.
  2. ↑ Wilt Aden Schröder: Karl Heinrich Julius Babucke , BLO II Aurich 1997, pp. 20–22 , on Ostfriesische Landschaft, accessed on October 14, 2015

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 33.8 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  E