Liceo Italiano

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İtalyan Lisesi
Liceo Italiano di Istanbul
Istituti Medi Italiani - IMI
The facade of the school building
type of school private high school
founding 1861 or 1888
address

Tomtom Kaptan Sokak 3

place Istanbul
province Istanbul
Country Turkey
Coordinates 41 ° 1 '48 "  N , 28 ° 58' 43"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 1 '48 "  N , 28 ° 58' 43"  E
management Massimo di Segni (Rector)
Zerrin Akınlı (Turkish Vice Rector )
Website www.liceoitaliano.net

The Liceo Scientifico Italiano di Istanbul - IMI , known as Liceo Italiano in Italian and İtalyan Lisesi in Turkish , is a private school located in the historic Pera district , now Beyoğlu , in the Turkish city ​​of Istanbul .

Although it is considered a private high school under Turkish law, the Liceo Italiano receives financial support from Italy , and all teachers are from the country. The languages ​​of instruction are Italian and Turkish, and the study of Latin and English is also compulsory.

history

In 1861 an evening school was founded for the Italian community in Constantinople , then the capital of the Ottoman Empire . An Italian charity then sponsored the establishment of a primary and secondary school, which began operations in 1885 on Rue de Pologne , today's Nuru Ziya Sokak , and was recognized by the Italian government as a state school abroad in 1888 . The year 1888 is now considered to be the year the Liceo Italiano was founded .

In addition to the above-mentioned elementary and middle school, there was a commercial school in the Hayriya Sokak in Beyoğlu in 1895 , which received an upper level in 1900, at which pupils could obtain a subject-specific university entrance qualification. In 1910 the commercial school was joined by a high school train. These schools were open to Italian and Turkish young people after passing appropriate entrance exams.

After interruptions caused by the war, the Italian schools moved to a school building on the Venedik Sarayı complex on Tomtom Kaptan Sokak . It was the location of the embassy of the Republic of Venice, which was eliminated in 1797 . The Venetian embassy complex then belonged to Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War , which expanded the facilities and, among other things, built the school building for its own school abroad. Since the property of the Italian victorious power was historical Italian property, the High Commissioner Carlo Sforza arranged for it to be occupied.

The Republic of Turkey , founded in 1923 , recognized the Italian high school under the name Özel Italyan Lisesi and put it on an equal footing with the corresponding Turkish schools. In 1966, vocational school classes that had been set up in the meantime, the elementary school and then the commercial school were abolished. In the course of a Turkish school reform (Law 4306/1997), a preparatory class for young people without knowledge of Italian was introduced in the 1998/99 school year. The independent middle school (6th to 8th grade) was dissolved as such and incorporated into the grammar school. In addition to the Italian scientific branch (liceo scientifico), the latter has a "Turkish mathematical" branch since 1998 because of the Turkish school reform mentioned above.

Known students

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