1. Riga State High School

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1. Riga State High School (Latvian: Rīgas Valsts 1. ģimnāzija)
RV1G building.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1211
address

Raiņa bulvāris 8
LV 1050, Riga

place Riga
Republic city Riga
Country Latvia
Coordinates 56 ° 57 '10 "  N , 24 ° 6' 46"  E Coordinates: 56 ° 57 '10 "  N , 24 ° 6' 46"  E
carrier Riga City Council
student 1055
management Māris Brasla
Website r1g.edu.lv

The 1st Riga State High School ( Latvian Rīgas Valsts 1. ģimnāzija , abbreviation and hashtag RV1G ) is the oldest high school in Riga and the Baltic States .

history

The 1st State High School traces its tradition back to the cathedral school at Riga Cathedral, founded in 1211 by Bishop Albert von Buxthoeven .

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1527/28 under the superintendent and rector Jacob Battus († 1545), the school was converted into a municipal Lutheran school for scholars . In 1631 an academic high school was combined with it, which replaced the university that was missing in Livonia for some subjects . This academic high school was destroyed in 1656 during the Russian siege and the plague that followed . Of the two remaining professors, one became a councilor and the other a preacher. While the cathedral school continued to run without interruption, it was not until 1677 that the academic high school was rebuilt. This lasted until 1710, when again as a result of a Russian siege and the Great Plague, all but one of the professors and all but one of the teachers died as well. The two survivors continue to run the cathedral school as a grammar school, but the academic grammar school was destroyed forever.

Shortly before the restoration of the grammar school was 1675 by Charles XI. (Sweden) founded a second grammar school in Riga (under the name Schola Carolina ), which later took on the name Lyceum, but after a short existence in 1710 it also died. It was not until 1733, after a 23-year hiatus, that this educational institution was restored by Anna (Russia) as the Lyceum Imperatorium . In 1804 this was converted into the governorate grammar school of Livonia governorate . From 1890 it was called Nicolai-Gymnasium . In 1919 it became the state technical center ( Rīgas Valsts tehnikums ), today's Riga Technical University .

City high school around 1900

From 1764 to 1769 Johann Gottfried Herder worked at the cathedral school. With the establishment of the Gouvernementsgymnasium in 1804, the cathedral school temporarily ceased to be a grammar school. It was transformed into a higher district school, which prepared for attending the Gouvernementsgymnasium. When the increasing number of pupils made a second grammar school necessary, the cathedral school first became a secondary school in 1860 , from which the humanistic city grammar school with a secondary school emerged in 1873. At the beginning of 1868, the building, which was built according to plans by Johann Daniel Felsko and is still in use today, was ready to move into.

Until 1892 the school was essentially German-speaking. Since 1781 there have been lessons in Russian , from 1881, as part of the increasing Russification of the Baltic provinces, lessons in Russian were extended to other subjects until it became the language of instruction in 1892 with the ban on teaching in German. Facultative classes in the Latvian language had only existed since 1896.

After the establishment of the independent Republic of Latvia , the school was converted into a Latvian school in 1920. For the first time, Latvian was the language of instruction. At the same time, the German-speaking schools created the Classic Gymnasium, which existed until 1939, and the Municipal German Gymnasium .

During the time of the Soviet occupation, the school, now secondary school No. 1 , was named after the revolutionary Leon Paegle (1890–1926).

In 1996 the school received the status of a state high school and its current name.

School profile

The school has traditionally been strong in science , math, and computer science . All teaching programs focus on mathematics. An additional focus can be chosen in the teaching program of the upper level. In addition to English (as the first foreign language), a second foreign language can be chosen between Russian, German and French. Since 1997 it has been possible to do the International Baccalaureate ; since 2001 the German language diploma can be obtained.

Directors and teachers

Graduates

literature

  • Gotthard Schweder: The old cathedral school, the current city high school in Riga. Part I, festival program to commemorate the restoration of the city high school 25 years ago as an invitation to speak on December 16, 1885, 11 a.m. in the morning: plus school news for 1884 and 1885. ( digitized version )
    • extended new edition Riga 1910 ( digitized version )
  • Arthur Poelchau: The real resp. City high school in Riga in the first thirty years of its existence 1861–1890: a sketch. Riga 1911 ( digitized version )
  • Bernhard Hollander: History of the cathedral school, the later city high school in Riga. (= Contributions to Baltic history 10) Ed. By Clara Redlich , Hanover: Hirschheydt 1980
  • Klaus Garber : Scholarly foundation in Riga: Cathedral School, Lyceum and their spiritual representatives. in: Ders .: Treasure houses of the spirit. Old libraries and book collections in the Baltic States. (= From archives, libraries and museums in Central and Eastern Europe 3) Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007 ISBN 978-3-412-08106-5 , pp. 11–32

Web links

Commons : 1st Riga State High School  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dati.e-skola.lv
  2. ↑ See Garber (Lit.), p. 14
  3. ↑ According Proceedings of the Society of History and Archeology of the Baltic provinces of Russia 1891, p 18
  4. ↑ See Dietrich A. Loeber: The Classical Gymnasium in Riga 1919-1939: a memorial. Hamburg 1970
  5. ^ Alfred Schönfeldt: The Municipal German Gymnasium in Riga 1919-1934. A review. Riga 1934