Collegium Groeningianum

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Gröning Collegium, school building from the 19th century
The founder Peter Gröning

The Collegium Groeningianum , also known as Gröningsches Kolleg , Gröningsches Collegium and Gröningsches Gymnasium , was a Protestant school for scholars in Stargard in Western Pomerania .

It was opened on September 28, 1633 after the Mayor of Stargard Peter Gröning (1561-1631) had suspended a corresponding foundation in a second will of January 28, 1631. Latin had been taught at the council school that had already existed, but graduation from the council school alone did not qualify for university attendance . In order to be admitted to study at a university, the graduates of the council school also had to attend a higher school in another city. In order to remedy this deficiency and “for the best of the poor”, Gröning donated a sum of 20,000 guilders from his private assets .

The first rector was Johannes Rhenius in 1633 , who probably left the position in the same year after no salary was paid to him. The first school building was an extension to the existing council school. Lessons took place simultaneously in a single classroom for all students, despite their different educational backgrounds. The teachers held the title of lecturer . The school building was destroyed by fire on October 7, 1635. After 33 years it was rebuilt under Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and reopened in 1668. Around 1700 and at the Diet of 1705, the proposal had been made to turn the Collegium Groeningianum into a university, but it remained a grammar school.

The simultaneous joint teaching of all students in only one classroom had a disadvantageous effect. In 1710 this teaching method was abandoned. As a result of a visitation notice from King Friedrich Wilhelm I of July 25, 1714, the college was restructured and given five professorships. Four of the professorships that have been set up have changed, namely for the subject areas

  • theology
  • philosophy
  • classical languages
  • Style and poetry

preserved until the 19th century. Mathematics and natural history subjects such as physics and chemistry were assigned to the philosophy class. In addition to English and French, Latin , Ancient Greek and Hebrew were also taught. The Gdańsk Academic Gymnasium was evidently the model for the realignment . In any case, on the day the Danzig grammar school celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1758, a corresponding ceremony was also celebrated by the teaching staff of the Stargard grammar school. However, a connection to the Essen Lutheran Gymnasium, which the director Johann Heinrich Zopf decisively reformed, can be proven early on . His students included the Prussian school reformer Johann Julius Hecker and his brother Andreas Petrus Hecker , who later became archdeacon at the Stargarder Marienkirche and founded a secondary school in the city. His son Gotthilf Samuel Hecker attended the college. This is probably how the connection to the Essen city school came about. The later Burggymnasium Essen and the Gröning'sche Gymnasium cultivated a close friendship until well into the twentieth century. The Association of Former Gröninginans received a room here, where they created an archive of newsletters, school programs from the college and other information; this collection is now kept in the state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia Westphalia department in Münster after the association was dissolved due to age .

At the beginning of the 18th century, 140 pupils were studying at the Collegium Groeningianum, a number that was never reached again in the rest of the 18th century. In 1812, under the neo-humanist director Gotthilf Samuel Falbe, the college and the 50-year-old Stargard secondary school and the city council school were combined to form the “State and Gröning'sche Gymnasium”. It existed until 1945. The building was used as a hospital in the final phase of the war. The Adam Mickiewicz Lyceum was later set up there.


Teachers (selection)

  • Johannes Rhenius , 1633 first rector of the Gröning College
  • Christoph Practorius , who was rector, wrote about the history of the town of Stargard
  • Joachim Holce (1683–1742), became professor of mathematics etc. in 1714
  • Christian Schöttgen , 1719–1727 was a professor and at the same time rector of the city school.
  • David Siegfried Leistikow († 1769), became professor of mathematics in 1726.
  • Daniel Gottfried Werner (1695 – after 1752), succeeded Schöttgen as rector in 1728.
  • Johann Daniel Denso (1708–1795), was here 1731–1751 professor of “style and eloquence”.
  • Felix Bielke , rector around 1760.
  • Samuel Tiefensee (1722–1810), around 1760 professor of poetry, among other things.
  • Johann Georg Müchler (1724–1819), was professor of Latin and lecturer for French from 1759–1773.
  • Johann Christian Friedrich Höpfner (born April 10, 1751 in Langenhagen ), taught since 1780 as professor of stylistic art and since 1786 as professor of Latin and Greek and was most recently rector.
  • Gotthilf Samuel Hecker (1753–1825), teacher of Latin and Hebrew, among other things, at the same time rector of the secondary school.
  • Friedrich Otto Wichmann (1763–1791), teacher from 1787
  • Gotthilf Samuel Falbe (1768–1849), director since 1812
  • Karl Wilhelm Becker, a teacher from Stargard, received an additional position as a military preacher in May 1815

Known students

Other graduates known by name
  • Christian Friedrich Brahz (born September 16, 1723 in Voigtshagen , district of Greifenberg i. Pom. , † 1796 in Kittlitz , Upper Lusatia ), pedagogue and Protestant pastor, son of the Voigtshagen village tenant Joachim Brahz, studied in Halle for three years , worked as a teacher since 1743 at the orphanage in Sorau , was appointed to the Sorbian school in Sorau in 1746, learned the Sorbian language , had been pastor in Sorau for five years from September 13, 1748 and took over the vacant pastoral office in the old church village of Kittlitz on October 27, 1753 that he held until his death. He had served as a pastor for 49 years.

literature

  • Gotthilf Samuel Falbe : History of the high school and the schools in Stargard together with the two wills of the well-deserved Mayor Gröning, the benevolent founder of the local high school . Stargard 1831 ( full text ).
  • Hugo Bloth: Building bridges between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years. In: Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974. pp. 32-35.
  • Robert Schmidt: Contributions to the oldest history of the Collegium Groeningianum: 1633–1714 . In: Program of the Royal and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Stargard in Pomerania, Stargard 1886, 50 pages. ( Full text )
  • Robert Schmidt: On the history of the Collegium Groeningianum and the city school to Stargard in Pomerania in the 18th century. In: Communications from the Society for German Education and School History. Volume 5. Berlin 1895, pp. 27-38. ( Full text )
  • Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling : Complete History of Scholarship . Volume 4, Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1736, pp. 5762-5768 ( full text ).
  • Hinrich Siuts : The association of former Gröningians and their grammar school in Stargard in Pomerania. In: 175 years of the Burggymnasium. Festschrift. Essen 1999. p. 56f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Berghaus (Ed.): Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 4, Anklam 1868, p. 731, No. 6 ff.
  2. ↑ L. Wiese (ed.): The higher school system in Prussia - historical-statistical representation . Berlin 1864, pp. 144-146 .
  3. ↑ Martin Wehrmann : Magister Johannes Rhenius in Stargard (1633) . In: Monthly papers of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology . 1917, pp. 38-40.
  4. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Brief geographical-statistical-historical description of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1793, p. 495.
  5. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack (Ed.): Addendum to the short geographical-statistical-historical description of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, pp. 167-175 .
  6. ↑ Bicentennial celebration of the Academic Gymnasium in Gdansk . In: Nova acya historico-ecclesiastica, or collection of the latest church histories . 2nd volume (9th-16th part), Weimar 1760, 11th part., Pp. 325-337 .
  7. ↑ Notker Hammerstein , Ulrich Herrmann (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte : 18th century from the late 17th century to the reorganization of Germany around 1800. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-324649 , p. 406 ( Google books ) .
  8. ^ Hugo Bloth: Building bridges between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years. In: Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974. p. 32
  9. ↑ Gröningianer Collection , accessed on May 25, 2013
  10. ^ Hugo Bloth: Building bridges between the Burg- and Gröning'schen Gymnasium in Essen and Stargard for more than 150 years. In: Festschrift 150 years of the Burggymnasium Essen. Essen 1974. p. 32f.
  11. ↑ Hinrich Siuts: The Association of Former Gröningians and their high school in Stargard in Pomerania. In: 175 years of the Burggymnasium. Festschrift. Essen 1999, p. 56.
  12. ^ Johann D. Geschwend: Eisenbergsche Stadt- und Land-Chronika , Eisenberg 1758, p. 630 .
  13. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack (Ed.): Addendum to the short geographical-statistical-historical description of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, p. 314 .
  14. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Pomerania , Volume 6, Stettin 1816, p. 208.
  15. ↑ Lusatian Monthly Publication , Volume 1, Görlitz 1797, pp. 252–254, No. 28 ( online )


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