Carolo-Alexandrinum (Jena)

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The Carolo-Alexandrinum was a grammar school in Jena from 1876 to 1946 .

history

The grammar school was housed together with the Stadtsparkasse in a purpose-built building at Teichgraben 10, (later Schillerstraße 3) and was named after Grand Duke Carl Alexander , the then sovereign and sponsor of the school. Due to the great demand for schoolchildren, the Sparkasse moved out again in 1884. Because the neighboring company Carl Zeiss needed the space, the grammar school moved to Lessingstrasse 1 am Steiger at the end of 1914, where the new building was inaugurated at the beginning of 1915. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1926, a war memorial for the fallen teachers and students was erected in front of the building, which is now in the Frommann Garden (Fürstengraben). The building was damaged in an air raid on the city in 1945. The grammar school was abolished by the school reform in 1946 and a commercial and business school moved in before it was taken over by the urology department of the university clinic .

Known teachers (selection)

Known students (selection)

  • Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), philosopher, graduated from high school in 1910
  • Walter Eucken (1891–1950), economist, high school diploma in 1909
  • Heinrich Gelzer (1883–1945), Romanist
  • Ernst Giese (1865–1956), coroner, graduated from high school in 1884
  • Herbert Koch (1886–1982), pedagogue, Romance scholar and local historian, 1895–1905
  • Gotthard Neumann (1902–1972), prehistoric
  • Erich Schott (1891–1989), entrepreneur, graduated from high school in 1910

Sources and secondary literature

  • Marc Bartuschka: Art. Carolo-Alexandrinum Grammar School , in: Matias Mieth, Rüdiger Stutz (ed.): Jena. Lexicon on city history. Tümmel-Verlag, Berching 2018, p. 262.
  • Festschrift to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Carolo-Alexandrinum grammar school. From 7th to 11th October 1926 , ed. v. Festival committee, Jena 1926.