Fasori evangélikus Gimnázium

Fasori evangélikus Gimnázium
Fasori evangélikus Gimnázium
type of school	high school
founding	1823
address	Városligeti fasor 17-21
place	Budapest
city	Budapest
Country	Hungary
Coordinates	47 ° 30 ′ 31 ″  N , 19 ° 4 ′ 35 ″  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 31 ″  N , 19 ° 4 ′ 35 ″  E
Website	www.fasori.hu (Hungarian)

The Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium (literally about "Evangelisches Gymnasium an der Allee", sometimes referred to in German as the Budapest Lutheran Gymnasium and similar) is a traditional grammar school in Budapest . The school was founded in 1823 by the Lutheran Church of Hungary . Initially, the school was located on Deák Ferenc Square , in 1864 it was moved to Sütő utca and in 1904, together with the new Protestant church, was given its final location at today's address Városligeti fasor. The school had a humanistic orientation and the language of instruction was German. The students included members of various denominations, especially many sons from the Jewish bourgeoisie. The grammar school had to close under communist rule in 1952, but was reopened as a Hungarian grammar school in 1989 after its end.

Traditionally it was one of the best schools in Hungary and had many important scholars and artists as students:

• Eugene Paul Wigner ( 1963 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics)
• John Harsanyi ( 1994 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics)
• John von Neumann (mathematician and computer science pioneer)
• György Faludy (poet)
• Emmerich Kálmán (composer) - for five years
• Kálmán Kandó (inventor)
• Sándor Petőfi (poet) - for two years
• Thomas Sebeok (semiotic)

Among the previous students and teachers were Georg Lukács , Theodor Herzl , Antal Doráti , László Rátz (the teacher and sponsor of Neumanns and Wigners), Alfréd Haar , Miksa Fenyö , Gyula Szepesy , Adolf Fényes , Miksa Falk , Aurél Stein and Vilmos Tátrai .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcel Danesi, Albert Valdman: Thomas A. Sebeok . In: Language, vol. 80, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 312-317 JSTOR 4489665 , also dlib.indiana.edu