Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium (Breslau)
The Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium , also School of the Holy Spirit , was a grammar school in Breslau .
The grammar school emerged from a Latin school and existed there as the third oldest school from 1538 until its destruction in 1945. The school building finally stood on the west side of the former Ziegelplatz, the later Kaiserin-Augusta-Platz, today Plac Polski. It was last a high school .
On June 17, 2003 the association “Alter Heiliger Geister e. V. “unveil a memorial plaque in Wroclaw.
Well-known teachers and students
- Samuel Besler (1574–1625), a well-known Baroque church musician at the beginning of the 17th century
- Samuel Benjamin Klose (1730–1798), a friend of Lessing
- Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie (1768–1835) grew up bilingual. In 1811 he was appointed professor and director of the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow
- Michael Morgenbesser (Rector) (1782–1841), author of a history of Silesia
- Christian August Hermann Marbach (1817–1873), physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer
- Heinrich Fiedler (1833–1899), geologist, mineralogist and educator
- Wilhelm Wetekamp (1859–1945), school reformer and conservationist
- Arno Koselleck (1891–1977), school reformer and history teacher
- Fritz Mehrlein (1874–1945), Senator from Lübeck until 1933
- Felix Bobertag (1842–1907), Germanist, teacher from 1866 to 1907
- The philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), a student of Heilig-Geist, gave the speech on the 450th anniversary in 1988 and in 1996 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wroclaw .