High school illustrious Augusteum
| High school illustrious Augusteum | |
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| Courtyard of the St. Clara Monastery | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1664 |
| closure | 1794 |
| place | Weissenfels |
| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '58 " N , 11 ° 58' 4" E |
| carrier | Dukes of Saxony-Weissenfels |
The illustrious Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels , inaugurated on November 1, 1664 and in operation until 1794, was one of the most famous schools in the Protestant German-speaking area in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
history
It was founded in 1664 by Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels , and the inauguration followed on November 1st of the same year. They moved into the rooms of the former St. Clara monastery in Weißenfels. Famous teachers were Christian Weise , Johannes Riemer and Christoph Cellarius ; the students included Christian Friedrich Hunold and Heinrich von Brühl . The school profited considerably from the cultural life that August (1614 to 1680) and Johann Adolf I (1680 to 1697) brought to court. The most famous composers of the time made guest appearances in Weißenfels. The opera's lyricists included August Bohse , alias Talander, the most famous novelist of the 1690s and the first decade of the 18th century.
The curriculum was similar to that of a university. In fact, Rector Christian Weidling risked arrest in 1717 because he awarded academic degrees at the Augusteum that only a university could award. The fate of the high school was decided with the ducal protection. With the extinction of the line, the institution died in 1794.
Today the neighboring building of the former grammar school illustrious Augusteum houses the Goethe grammar school Weissenfels , which traces its historical roots back to this institution.
literature
- Otto Klein: Illustrious Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels. On the history of an academic school of scholars in the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels . Arps-Verlag, Weißenfels 2003, ISBN 3-936341-01-X .
- Gottfried Mayer: Reliable biography of the deceased Königigl. Polish and electoral prince Saxon Minister, Heinrich, the HRR Count von Brühl. And the royal, who also died. pohln. and churfürstl. Saxon Cabinets Ministers, Alexander Joseph, of the HRR von Sulkowski , Mayer, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1766, German-digital-library
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Mayer 1766, p. 16
- ↑ The history of the grammar school - The Goethe grammar school can look back on a history rich in tradition. In: www.ggwsf.org. Goethe Gymnasium Weißenfels , archived from the original on September 24, 2009 ; accessed on April 17, 2020 .