Royal Prussian Lyceum in Warsaw
Royal Prussian Lyceum in Warsaw ( Polish : Królewsko-Pruskie Liceum Warszawskie ), from 1807 only Liceum Warszawskie ( Warsaw Lyceum ) was a Warsaw secondary school for boys, which existed from 1803 to 1831.
history
After the third partition of Poland in 1795, most of western Poland with the former capital Warsaw came under Prussian rule and was divided into two administrative districts, New East Prussia with Warsaw as the capital and South Prussia with the capital in Kalisch . The Prussian authorities made an early effort to educate the Polish youth to be loyal subjects of the Prussian crown and in 1793 they set up a cadet institute in Kalisch (which earlier became Prussian as Warsaw). The purpose of this institution, with German as the language of instruction in the higher grades, was to train young Polish nobles to become future officers of the Prussian army. In 1803, plans began to open a new Prussian secondary school, this time to train young people from the upper class of the former Polish capital. The well-known German-born scholar Samuel Gottlieb Linde was entrusted with the management and organization of the school . He held the position of rector without interruption until the school was closed. The school had a predominantly humanistic character, all of the lessons (except for Polish lessons) were given in German: Latin , Greek , Polish , German , French , philosophy and ethics , as well as mathematics , natural sciences and technology , as well as music and horse riding were taught and dance . The school had six classes and two preparatory classes.
This Prussian system was used until 1807, after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw , the German language of instruction was abolished and the training was adapted to the French system.
The majority of the students came from well-to-do circles of the Warsaw bourgeoisie of German origin (therefore they had no problems with the German language of instruction) and around 80% were Protestant . A smaller part were Catholics , also from families of German descent, then also sons from German-Polish mixed marriages (usually with a German-speaking mother) and a few percent Jews , who were also German-speaking.
Well-known teachers included Nicolas Chopin , French teacher, Friedrich Karl Hauke (father of Hans Moritz Hauke ), math teacher, and of course Samuel Gottlieb Linde himself. Well-known students included Frédéric Chopin , musician , Zygmunt Krasiński , poet and Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg , Banker .
Until 1817 the school was located in the north wing of the Saxon Palace , which was rented by the Wettins ; after buying the palace for government purposes of Congress Poland , she moved into the Kazimierz Palace . The professors of the Lyceum had their official apartments in the school building, and Frédéric Chopin's father , Nicolas, French teacher at the Lyceum, even set up a small boarding house for students from the Warsaw area in his apartments in the two palaces .
A very large number of the graduates and students of the Lyceum joined the Polish November Uprising in 1830 . As a “source of plague and unrest”, the school was closed by the victorious tsarist authorities and moved to the “I. Gouvernementgymnasium “, which was organized according to the Russian model.
literature
- Stanisław Szenic: Ongiś , Warsaw 1975.