Old Town High School (Königsberg)
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
- Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold (1819–1884), mathematician and physicist
- Heinrich Dietrich Otto Ferdinand von Behr (d. 1880), Superintendent of the Diocese of Mohrungen, father of Anton von Behr
- Georg Bender (1848–1924), long-time Lord Mayor of the City of Wroclaw
- Johannes Bobrowski (1917–1965), poet and narrator
- Alexander August von Buchholtz (1802–1856), Pandect scientist in Königsberg
- Carl Bulcke (1875–1936), writer and public prosecutor
- Heinrich Eduard Dirksen (1790–1868), legal historian
- Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861), theologian
- Hermann Eilsberger (1837–1908), pastor in Königsberg
- Julius Ellinger (1817–1881), mathematics teacher in Königsberg and Tilsit
- Johann Funk (1792–1867), pastor at St. Marien zu Lübeck
- Otto Gisevius (1821–1871), District Administrator in Allenstein
- Erich Granaß (1877–1958), lawyer and city councilor in Berlin
- Ernst Gutzeit (1863–1927), university professor
- Max Hagedorn (1852–1914), doctor and entomologist, member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Ernst August Hagen (1797–1880), art writer, novelist, first professor for art history and aesthetics in Prussia
- Johann Hecker (1625–1675), astronomer in Danzig
- Max Hein (1885–1949), historian and archivist
- Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician in Heidelberg
- Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann (1767–1843), theologian
- Robert Jaensch (1817-1892), mathematics teacher
- Victor Laudien (1866–1945), pastor and superintendent in Königsberg
- Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828–1899), psychiatrist
- Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
- Johann Eduard Loch (1840–1905), classical philologist
- Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician
- Alexander Oppenheim (1819–1898), lawyer and photographer
- Otto Georg Oppenheim (1817–1909), lawyer and senior tribunal councilor
- Rudolph Oppenheim (1811–1871), banker
- Friedrich Julius Richelot (1808–1875), mathematician
- Julius Rupp (1809-1884), theologian
- Franz Schlegelberger (1876–1970), State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice, Acting Minister of Justice during the Nazi era
- Ernst Reinhold Schmidt (1819–1901), leader of the German immigrants in Pennsylvania
- Heinrich Schröter (1829–1892), mathematician
- Otto Schumann (lawyer) (1805–1869), district court director, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), mathematician and theoretical physicist
- Walter Telemann (1882–1941), internist and radiologist
- George Wichert (1811–1876), classical philologist, modern Latinist and high school director
- Hans Widera (1887–1972), business lawyer
- Carl Witt (philologist) (1815-1891), liberal politician
See also
literature
In order of appearance
- Karl Friedrich Merleker : Historical-statistical news about the old town high school in Königsberg in Pr. Preußische Provinzial-Blätter, Bd. 20, Königsberg 1838, S. 182-1188. and pp. 338-353.
- Georg Christoph Pisanski : From the schools in Königsberg in the seventeenth century . Prussische Provinzial-Blätter, Vol. 9, Königsberg 1850, pp. 458-467, especially pp. 459-462.
- Ludwig Adolf Wiese (Hrsg.): The higher school system in Prussia - historical-statistical representation . Berlin 1864, pp. 52-56. .
- Heinrich Babucke: In memory of the relocation of the Altstädtisches Gymnasium to Königsberg Pr. , Hartungsche Buchdruck, April 9, 1889 , commemorative publication: with "The buildings of the Altstädtisches Gymnasium" and "Directory of high school graduates 1814 to 1889"
- Reinhard Adam: The Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof zu Königsberg (Pr.). 1304-1945. From the history of the two oldest schools in East Germany . Leer, Rautenberg 1977, ISBN 3-7921-0196-3 .
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
- Richard Armstedt : history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German Land and Life in Individual Descriptions . 2, City Stories), (Reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 ( Historical Library ))
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X
- Rudolf Ludwig Theodor Möller : History of the Old Town High School 1847–1885
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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