List of important students and teachers of the Christian-Weise-Gymnasium
List of important students and teachers of the Christian-Weise-Gymnasium Zittau:
A.
- Karl Benjamin Acoluth (1726–1800), lawyer and writer
- Gottlob Adolph (1685–1745), Protestant hymn poet
- Paul Anton (1661–1730), Protestant theologian
- Paul Arras (1857–1942), teacher, archivist and local history researcher
B.
- Christian Gottlieb Bergmann (1734–1822), lawyer and mayor of Zittau
- Gustav Adolph Berthold (1819–1894), writer and painter
- Ernst Rudolf Bierling (1841–1919), lawyer and member of the Prussian manor house
- Falko Bindrich (* 1990), chess grandmaster
- Samuel Friedrich Bucher (1692–1765), archaeologist, philologist and educator
C.
- Hermann Julius Robert Calinich (1834–1883), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and Hamburg chief pastor
- Dietrich Carl von Carlowitz (1839–1890), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
E.
- Ludwig Ettmüller (1802–1877), Germanist, student from 1816 to 1823
F.
- Oskar Friedrich (1832–1915), mathematician, scientist and author
- Hermann Frohberger (1836–1874), classical philologist
- Julius Frühauf (1829–1898), professor of economics and politician
G
- Kurt Gebauer (1909–1942), classical archaeologist
- Benjamin Gottlieb Gerlach (1698–1756), educator and author
- Christian Gottlieb Gilling (1735–1789), theologian
- Gustav Hermann Göhl (1859–1931), teacher, philologist and Esperantist
- Max Gottschald (1882–1952), philologist and name researcher
- Johann Friedrich Gregorius (1697–1761), Protestant theologian and hymn poet
H
- Alwin Hartmann (1840–1921), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Johann Gottlieb Hauptmann (1703–1768), linguist and Protestant theologian
- Woldemar Salomo Hausdorf (1731–1779), Protestant theologian
- Curt Heinke (1890–1934), high school teacher and local geologist
- Robert Helbig (1877–1956), high school teacher and politician (NSDAP)
- Johann Friedrich Hertel (1667–1743), legal scholar
- Friedrich Gottlob Herzog (1689–1751), Protestant theologian
- Johann Hübner (1668–1731), school writer and teacher
J
- Karl Gottlob Just (1734–1792), lawyer and mayor of Zittau
K
- Heinrich Julius Kämmel (1813–1881), high school teacher
- Karl von Kaskel (1866–1943), composer
- Christian Keimann (1607–1662), educator, poet and Protestant hymn poet
- Balthasar Kindermann (1636–1706), poet
- Werner Klinnert (1938–2006), chemist, politician and former member of the Saxon state parliament
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (1798–1869), heraldist, ophthalmologist and writer
- Hermann Knothe (1821–1903), regional historian of Upper Lusatia
- Alwin Reinhold Korselt (1864–1947), mathematician
- Johann Wilhelm Krause (1757–1828), architect and agricultural scientist
L.
- Ferdinand Heinrich Lachmann (1770–1848), teacher and vice-principal
- Kurt Albin Lade (1843–1922), politician
- Friedrich Lindemann (1792–1854), pedagogue and classical philologist
- Gustav Hermann Julius Lipsius (1802–1841), theologian and pastor
- Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius (1805–1861), theologian and educator
- Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), philosopher
M.
- Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861), composer
- Johann Friedrich May (1697–1762), ethnologist and political scientist
- Stephan Meyer (politician) (* 1981), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Saxony
- Johann Benjamin Michaelis (1746–1772), poet
- Melchior Gottlieb Minor (1693–1748), Protestant theologian
- Arnošt Muka (1854–1932), Sorbian writer, folklorist and founder of the Sorbian Museum
N
- Hans Naumann (1886–1951), literary historian
- Bernhard Neumann (chemist) (1867–1953), chemist
- Johann Georg Neumann (1661–1709), Lutheran theologian and church historian
O
- Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (philologist) (1805–1866), classical philologist
P
- Christian Pescheck (arithmetic master) (1676–1744), mathematics teacher, astronomer and writer
- Christian Adolf Pescheck (1787–1859), theologian, historian and writer
- Julius Pfeiffer (1824–1910), German lawyer and politician
- Christian Gottlieb Prieber (1697–1744 / 45), lawyer, social utopian, adventurer
R.
- Bartholomäus Reusner (1565–1629), German legal scholar
- Otto Richter (church musician) (1865–1936), church musician and Dresden Kreuzkantor
- Leopold Immanuel Rückert (1797–1871), theologian and philosopher
S.
- Johann Christoph Schmidt (1664–1728), composer
- Expeditus Schmidt (1868–1939), Franciscan, theater and literary historian (released from Unterprima in 1886)
- Karl Schnelle (1831–1890), German classical philologist and high school teacher
- Carl August Schramm (1807–1869), master builder
- Ernst Christian Schröder (1675–1758), mathematician
- Mark Schwaner (1639–1713), first German Quaker
- Johann Christoph Schwedler (1672–1730), Lutheran theologian and hymn poet
- Konrad Seeliger (1852–1929), German classical philologist and high school teacher
- Gottlob Friedrich Seligmann (1654–1707), Lutheran theologian
- Horst Stephan (1873–1954), Protestant theologian and publicist
T
- Melchior Teschner (1584–1635), church musician
V
- Gottfried Vopelius (1645–1715), cantor at the Nikolaischule in Leipzig
W.
- Johann Georg Walther (1708–1761), educator, rhetorician and ethnologist
- Johann Georg Weber (1687–1753), Lutheran theologian
- Christian Weise (1642–1708), educator and poet
- Ernst Willkomm (1810–1886), writer and features editor
Z
- Thomas Zenker (* 1975), local politician, Lord Mayor of the large district town of Zittau
- Hans Severus Ziegler (1893–1978), publicist, artistic director, teacher and Nazi functionary
- Johannes Zwicker (1881–1969), teacher and historian