Colegio Imperial de Madrid

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Colegio Imperial de Madrid

The Colegio Imperial de Madrid (also Colegio Imperial de la Compañía de Jesús or Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo de la Compañía de Jesús en la Corte ; today Instituto San Isidro ) was the name of the important Jesuit school in Madrid .

history

The Jesuit college was founded by Pedro de Ribadeneyra in 1560 shortly after the death of the order's founder, Ignatius von Loyola . It fell at the time when the Madrid court was gaining power. Léonore Mascareñas, an old patron of Ignatius, contributed the land. The name Colegio Imperial (= imperial ) arose from the patronage of Empress Maria von Österreich , daughter of Charles V and wife of Maximilian II. King Philip IV. Is considered the founder of the Reales Estudios (= royal studies, 1625). The subjects were then theology , philosophy , further history, geography and science, in order to use the graduates in civil service. An attempt to turn it into a university failed in Rome because existing facilities were to be protected. This is where the offspring of the Spanish elite went to school, including Lope de Vega , Quevedo and Calderón (from 1609).

The famous Luis de la Palma , Juan Bautista de Poza , Hugo Sempilius and Esteban de Terreros y Pando taught here . Luis de Molina invented Molinism, Juan Martinez de Ripalda formulated his doctrine of grace. Thanks to the connections of the Jesuits to the whole colonial empire and to Europe, valuable holdings (up to 35,000 books) accumulated in the library, which can still be used today. One example is the botanical work by Francisco Hernandez de Toledo .

Post-history

Detail of a city map by Pedro Texeira (1595–1662) with the Colegio

After the Jesuit ban in Spain in 1767, Charles III. the college re-established as Reales Estudios Superiores de Madrid (1770), a public school. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Jesuits came back: 1816-1820 and again after the Trienio Liberal 1823-1834. In 1835 the Jesuits were banned in Spain for the second time (after the murder of 18 Jesuits), while at the same time the Complutense Universidad from Alcalá de Henares was moving to Madrid. As a result, the institute was set up in 1835 as a school in preparation for studying ( Estudios Nacionales ).

In 1845 the old Colegio Imperial College became the Instituto San Isidro and has remained so to this day. In 1999 ownership passed to the Madrid municipality.

literature

  • Javier Ortega; Francisco José Marín: La conformación del Colegio Imperial de Madrid (1560 -1767) In: Anales del Instituto de Estudios Madrileños (Madrid 2013 (LIII) pp. 135–175. Online )
  • José Simón Díaz: Historia del Colegio Imperial de Madrid: (del estudio de la villa al Instituto de San Isidro, años 1346-1955), 2 vols., Madrid 1952-1959

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Arnold Rothe: Quevedo and Seneca . Librairie Droz, 1965, ISBN 978-2-600-03842-3 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).
  2. ↑ UCM-Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ UCM-Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ PB Gams: The Church History Of Spain . Рипол Классик, 1862, ISBN 978-5-87596-314-8 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).

Coordinates: 40 ° 24 ′ 45.7 "  N , 3 ° 42 ′ 26.5"  W.