Collegium Fridericianum

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Collegium Fridericianum or Friedrichs Kollegium

The Royal Collegium Fridericianum (later also called Friedrichs-Kollegium ) was a higher school in Königsberg i. Pr. It was named after Friedrich I (Prussia) .

history

Couleur card (used 1966)

The school was founded on August 11, 1698 by Theodor Gehr as a pietistic private school in his house on the Sackheim . The model was the Francke orphanage in Halle (Saale) with different classes according to educational goals. Even before the early death of its founder (1707), the new institution in the 35-year-old Dr. Heinrich Lysius from Flensburg was an energetic and scientifically capable leader who, despite all opposition and financial difficulties, successfully ran the Collegium Fridericianum, as it has been called since 1703. In 1701 the Collegium Fridericianum received the privilege "royal" from the Prussian King Friedrich I on the occasion of his coronation. The institute quickly became one of the most important schools in East Germany and the center of pietism in dealing with Lutherans in the city and university. The rectors sponsored by the Prussian kings became formative designers of intellectual life. Public exams have also been introduced. The Collegium became the school in Königsberg that led to university studies, even if a temporary decline began after the rector Franz Albert Schultz .

In October 1810 the school was ceremoniously reopened as the first Royal High School in Prussia, which was organized according to Wilhelm von Humboldt's new humanist reform ideas . His Königsberg school plan is one of the central sources of German education: “The purpose of school lessons is to practice skills and acquire knowledge, without which scientific insight and artistry is impossible. Both should be prepared by him, the young person should be put in a position to be able to collect the material, to which all one's own creativity must always be connected, partly already now, partly to be able to collect in the future as they please and to develop the intellectual-mechanical strength. He is preoccupied in two ways: once with learning itself, then with learning to learn . But all its functions are only relative, always subordinate to something higher, only collecting, comparing, arranging, checking, etc. The absolute is only stimulated. " The Masure and later teacher Wilhelm Herrmann wrote in the Schmiedeberg album : " The Fridericianum was purgatory to heaven Albertinas. "

The new building was inaugurated on October 17, 1855.

On the night of 29./30. August 1944, the British air raids on Koenigsberg destroyed the school building. School operations continued until January 24, 1945. The last headmaster Bruno Schumacher managed to take a copy of the student registers from 1750 to 1944 with him when he escaped from the burning Königsberg and to found an alumni association.

The Kneiphöfische Gymnasium existed in Königsberg from 1304 and the Altstädtisches Gymnasium from 1525 .

Sponsorship

On May 28, 1955, the Landfermann-Gymnasium in Duisburg took over the sponsorship of the former Collegium Fridericianum. This is still intensively maintained today, e.g. B. through the annual competitions of the Professor Schumacher Foundation.

Directors

Bruno Schumacher, last director

In chronological order:

Teacher

student

literature

  • History of the Royal Friedrichs-Collegiums zu Königsberg in Pr. Preußische Provinzial-Blätter, Volume 14, Königsberg 1835, pp. 361–381.
  • Heiner F. Klemme: The school of Immanuel Kant. With the text by Christian Schiffert [1741] about the Königsberg Collegium Fridericianum. Meiner, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7873-1185-8 ( Kant research 6), preview in the Google book search.
  • Christian Schiffert : Reliable news from the current institutions of the Collegii Fridericiani zu Königsberg in Prussia. Königsberg 1742, Up to now not accessible in the Google book search.
  • Gustav Zippel: History of the Royal Friedrich College of Königsberg Pr. 1698–1898. Hartung, Königsberg 1898, digitized in the Google book search.
  • L. Wiese (Hrsg.): The higher school system in Prussia - historical-statistical representation . Berlin 1864, pp. 52-56.

Web links

Commons : Collegium Fridericianum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ludwig Adolf Wiese : The higher school system in Prussia. Historical-statistical representation . Berlin 1864, p. 53
  2. ↑ To the public examination of the students of the Royal. Friedrich Collegiums m Monday the 29th and Tuesday the 30th September of this year. sincerely invite Dr. J. Horkel, Königl. Professor and Director. , Schultzsche Hofbuchdruckerei., Königsberg in Pr. 1856., Königl. Friedrich Collegium. P. 32 , accessed on June 9, 2014
  3. ^ Collegium Fridericianum Professor Schumacher Foundation
  4. ^ Johannes Classen : Friedrich Jacob, director of the Catharineum in Lübeck, in his life and work. Along with communications from his unprinted poetic and prosaic bequest and his portrait in copperplate . Jena 1855, p. 21
  5. ↑ a b c d Franz Kößler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  6. ^ Emil Brenning :  Lauson, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 71.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 20 ° 31 ′ 33.9 ″  E