List of well-known students and teachers of the Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nuremberg

This list contains well-known students and teachers of the Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg .

List of well-known students at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg

Surname	Date of birth	date of death	Start of school	End of school time	description	Remarks	image	swell
Johann Christoph Arnschwanger	Dec 28, 1625	Dec 10, 1696		1644	German Protestant pastor and hymn poet
Friedrich Bauer	June 14, 1812	Dec 13, 1874			German theologian, educator and Germanist
Walter Bauer-Wabnegg	Apr 13, 1954			1974	German media scientist and President of the University of Erfurt
Rudolf Benario	Sep 20 1908	Apr 12, 1933	1918	1922	German economist, together with Ernst Goldmann and Arthur Kahn, is considered the first Jew murdered in a National Socialist concentration camp
Wilhelm Raimund Beyer	May 2, 1902	Oct 6, 1990			German lawyer, legal philosopher, Hegel researcher and founder of the "International Hegel Society"
Gustav Blumröder	June 14, 1812	Dec 13, 1874			German theologian, educator and Germanist
Friedrich Bock	May 26, 1886	Oct 2, 1964			German classical philologist, librarian and writer, 1921 to 1951: Director of the Nuremberg City Library
Karl Heinrich Caspari	Feb 16, 1815	May 10, 1861			Clergyman, theologian and writer
Georg Friedrich Daumer	March 5, 1800	Dec 13, 1875		1817	German religious philosopher and poet, educator Kaspar Hauser	was also a teacher at the school
Ernst Deuerlein	Sep 9 1918	Nov 26, 1971		1939	German professor for history and art history at the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , for economic and social history at the WiSo faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and for modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
Johann Augustin Dietelmair	Apr 2, 1717	Apr 6, 1785			German theologian, theology professor and rector of the University of Altdorf
Hermann Dietzfelbinger	July 14, 1908	Nov 15, 1984			German theologian, EKD chairman and Bavarian regional bishop
Hugo Distler	June 24, 1908	Nov 1, 1942			German composer and Protestant church musician
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr	27 Sep 1677	Dec. 1, 1750		1696	German astronomer	was also a teacher at the school
Johann Conrad Dürr	Nov 26, 1625	4th July 1677		1643	Theologian and university professor
Christian Enzensberger	December 24, 1931	Jan. 27, 2009			German English scholar, translator and writer	Brother of Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Ulrich Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger	Nov 11, 1929		1940	1944	German poet, writer, editor, translator and editor	Brother of Christian Enzensberger and Ulrich Enzensberger
Ulrich Enzensberger	Dec. 2, 1944				German writer and translator, also "Communard" of Commune I	Brother of Christian Enzensberger and Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Samuel Faber	March 3, 1657	Apr 10, 1716			German rector and writer	later also rector at the grammar school , son of the former teacher Johann Ludwig Faber , member of the Pegnese Flower Order
Wolfdietrich Fischer	March 25, 1928	May 27, 2013		1947	German Arabist
Wolfgang Giese	Feb 6, 1939			1960	German historian	attended the same year as Tilo Prückner
Christoph Friedrich Geiger	March 23, 1712	Sep 7 1767		1730	German lawyer and professor at the University of Marburg
Oskar Grether	Dec 16, 1902	Aug 3, 1949		1922	German theologian and professor at the University of Erlangen
Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling	Feb 25, 1671	Dec 9, 1729		1689	German polymath, enlightener and rector at the University of Halle , one of the founders of the doctrine of intellectual property and one of the most important natural law teachers of the 18th century
Leo Hauck	May 29, 1874	Nov 1, 1945			German doctor and professor for skin and venereal diseases
Johann Christoph Held	Dec 21, 1791	March 21, 1873			German classical philologist and pedagogue
Gerhard Hirschmann	Nov 10, 1918	July 19, 1999			German archivist, historian, director of the Nuremberg City Archives from 1970 to 1983
Ernst Christoph Hochmann von Hochenau	1670	Jan. 1721			German mystical-separatist pietist
Hanns Hubert Hofmann	Nov 6, 1922	June 5th 1978	1933	1940	German historian
Christoph Siegmund from Holzschuher	Nov 30, 1729	Oct 12, 1779		1748	Patrician, bailiff and historian
Otto P. Hornstein	Jan. 22, 1926	19th March 2018			German dermatologist and director of the skin clinic at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Hunter	Dec 22, 1734	May 30, 1795	1749	1752	German classical philologist, historian and university professor
Berthold Kellermann	March 5, 1853	June 14, 1926	1864	1869	German pianist, piano teacher, conductor and university professor
Hermann Kesten	Jan. 28, 1900	May 3, 1996		1919	Jewish writer, editor-in-chief of the Kiepenheuer publishing house in Berlin (1927–1933), one of the main representatives of the literary “ New Objectivity ” during the 1920s in Germany
Peter Kolb	Oct 10, 1675	Dec. 31, 1726	1696		German teacher and ethnologist
Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch from Buschenau	Aug 15, 1731	Apr 3, 1802		1750	Medic and astronomer
Christoph Carl Kress from Kressenstein	Jan. 10, 1723	March 14, 1791			German lawyer and mayor of Nuremberg
Julian Langner	2nd July 1966			1985	German Bundesbank director
Jonas Lanig	March 10, 1950	March 11, 2019		1969	German high school teacher, Nuremberg GEW chairman and politician (SPD)
Wilhelm Lohe	Feb 21, 1808	Jan. 2, 1872			German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, parish office in Neuendettelsau in 1837, which he made the center of diaconia and a worldwide mission
Johann Christoph Martini	Oct 14, 1732	May 5, 1804			German Protestant clergyman and church historian
Hans Meiser	Feb 16, 1881	June 8, 1956			German Protestant theologian, pastor and from 1933 to 1955 first regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
Johann Siegmund Mörl	March 3, 1710	Feb. 22, 1791			German Protestant theologian, first preacher of the Church of St. Sebald (Nuremberg) , librarian, Antistes of the Spiritual Ministry and professor at the Aegidianum	was also a teacher at the school for ancient Greek
Georg Neithardt	Jan. 31, 1871	Nov 1, 1941			German judge at the Bavarian People's Court , responsible for the high treason trial against Adolf Hitler in 1924 ( Hitler putsch )
Julius Nürnberger	May 30, 1883	Jan. 24, 1952		1902	German lawyer and member of the Bavarian Senate
Magnus Daniel Omeis	6 Sep 1646	Nov 22, 1708			German poet, philosopher, member of the Pegnese Flower Order in 1667
Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Penzenkuffer	Jan. 25, 1768	Oct 25, 1828	1779	1787	German clergyman	was also the school's teacher of French
Johann Philipp Pfeiffer	Feb 16, 1645	Sep 10 1695		1663	German philologist, librarian and theologian
Tilo Prückner	Oct 26, 1940	2nd July 2020		1960	German actor and author	attended the same class as Wolfgang Giese
Georg Friedrich Puchta	Aug 31, 1798	Jan. 8, 1846	1811	1816	Legal scholar
Rio Reiser (as Ralph Christian Möbius)	Jan. 9, 1950	Aug 20, 1996			German singer, musician, composer, songwriter and actor
Johann Friedrich Riederer	Feb 20, 1678	June 25, 1734	1683	1692	German poet
Johann Leonhard Rost	Aug 14, 1688	March 22, 1727	1703		German author of novels, letter holders and other gallant texts as well as an astronomer
Georg Rückert	Aug 16, 1914	Aug 31, 1988		1933	German Protestant pastor and founder of the Augustine
Thomas Schadt	Jan. 31, 1957			1976	German director, producer, cameraman, author and photographer	attended the same year as Helge Weingärtner
Nicolaus Schwebel	Aug 19, 1713	7th Dec 1773			German classical philologist, poet and educator	later also headmaster
Alfons Stauder	Apr 12, 1878	December 17, 1937			German physician and medical professional
Klaus Stern	Jan. 11, 1932				German legal scholar and professor for public law , general law and administration as well as a judge at the Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia a. D., Stern is one of the most renowned constitutional lawyers in Germany
Rudolf Stich	July 19, 1875	Dec 18, 1960		1894	German surgeon and university professor
Otto Stromer von Reichenbach	7 Aug 1831	Sep 11 1891			1867 to 1891 first mayor of the city of Nuremberg, member of the Pegnese Order of Flowers
Wolfgang Trillhaas	Oct 31, 1903	Apr 24, 1995	1913	1922	Full professor for practical theology and systematics in Erlangen and Göttingen
Andreas Urschlechter	March 2, 1919	April 19, 2011			German lawyer and politician , Mayor of Nuremberg from 1957 to 1987
Rudolf Dumont du Voitel	Apr 29, 1916	Aug 2, 2011			German journalist and poet, board member of the Europa-Union and member of the Pegnese Flower Order
Ferdinand Wilhelm Weber	Oct. 22, 1836	July 10, 1879	1850	1855	Theologian and Judaist
Helge Weingärtner	May 28, 1959			1976	German art historian, writer and lexicographer	attended the same class as Thomas Schadt
Johann Georg August Wirth	Nov 20, 1798	July 26, 1848			German lawyer, writer and politician from the Vormärz
Georg Witschel	May 10, 1954			1973	German diplomat, German ambassador to Brazil since September 2016
Johann Paul Wurfbain	Sep 14 1655	Jan. 13, 1711			German medic	Student of the rector Johann Held

List of well-known teachers at the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg

Surname	Date of birth	date of death	Start of work at grammar school	End of work at high school	description	Remarks	image	swell
Siegmund Jakob Apinus (also: Sigismund Biene)	June 7, 1693	March 24, 1732	1722	1729	German philologist and educator	from 1722 professor of logic and metaphysics
Hansjörg Biener	Dec. 24, 1961		?	?	German media journalist, Protestant theologian	Professor of Didactics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Simon Bornmeister	May 31, 1632	Dec 8, 1688	1683	1687	German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet, member of the Pegnese Order of Flowers	Professor of history at the Egidiengymnasium
Wolfgang Breitwieser	Oct. 24, 1934	Dec 21, 2000	?	?	German translator
Georg Friedrich Daumer	March 5, 1800	Dec 13, 1875	1823	1828	German religious philosopher and poet, educator Kaspar Hauser	was also a student at the school
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr	27 Sep 1677	Dec. 1, 1750	1704	?	German astronomer	Professor of mathematics at the grammar school, was also a student at the school
Johann Ludwig Faber	1635	Nov 28, 1678	1670	Nov 28, 1678	German hymn poet	Father of the future rector Samuel Faber
Karl Christian Christoph Fikenscher	1798	1857	1824	?	German theologian, member of the Pegnese Order of Flowers	1824 professor, teacher of Wilhelm Löhe
Johann Christoph Gatterer	July 13, 1727	Apr 5, 1799	1752	1759	German historian during the Enlightenment	High school teacher and professor for imperial history and diplomacy at the Aegidianum high school
Joachim Heller	1518	1590	1546	1563	German teacher and headmaster, calendar writer , astronomer and composer	took over the professorship for mathematics in 1546, was previously also rector of the grammar school
Johann Herdegen	July 21, 1692	Feb 15, 1750	March 10, 1739	?	German theologian, historiographer, member of the Pegnese Order of Flowers	from 1739 professor of logic, from 1742 also that of Hebrew at the Egidianum, author of a historical work on the Pegnese Order of Flowers
Helius Eobanus Hessus	Jan. 6, 1488	Oct 4, 1540	?	?	German Protestant humanist, is considered one of the greatest neo-Latin poets of his time	Teacher of poetics, in 1532 he glorified Nuremberg in his Noriberga illustrata
Wolfgang Hunter	Dec 22, 1734	May 30, 1795	1762	1773	German classical philologist, historian and university professor
Georg Kerschensteiner	July 29, 1854	Jan 15, 1932	1883	1885	Pedagogue and founder of the labor school	Mathematics and Physics teacher
Georg Moritz Lowitz	Feb 17, 1722	Aug 24, 1774	1751	1755	German astronomer and geographer	Professorship for mathematics at the grammar school
Gustav Philipp Mörl	March 3, 1710	Feb. 22, 1791	1724	1750	German Protestant theologian, librarian, Antistes of the Spiritual Ministry, was also a student at the school
Johann Siegmund Mörl	Dec 26, 1673	May 7, 1750	1765	1770	German Protestant theologian, first preacher of the Church of St. Sebald (Nuremberg) , librarian, Antistes of the Spiritual Ministry and professor at the Aegidianum , was also a student of the school
Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Penzenkuffer	Jan. 25, 1768	Oct 25, 1828	1806	1824	German clergyman	Professor of French at high school, was also a student at the school
Michael Roting	1494	1588	1526	1572	German teacher and headmaster	was later also rector at the grammar school, table mate Philipp Melanchthon
Hannelore Schlaffer	Aug 6, 1939		?	?	German Germanist and essayist
Johannes Schöner	Jan. 16, 1477	Jan. 16, 1547	1526	1547	German mathematician, geographer , cartographer , astronomer , astrologer as well as printer and publisher of scientific works	first professor of mathematics at the Egidiengymnasium, later also rector of the grammar school
Peter Schönlein	March 16, 1939	Nov 30, 2016	?	?	German local politician of the SPD , Mayor of Nuremberg from 1987 to 1996
Adam Rudolf Solger	Oct 1, 1693	Nov 23, 1770	1742	?	Clergyman in Nuremberg	Appointment as professor of church and scholarly history
Karl von Staudt	Jan. 24, 1798	June 1, 1867	1827	?	German mathematician	1827 Appointment as professor at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium and at the Municipal Polytechnic School, today the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm

See also

• List of the school principals of the Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography in the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, accessed on November 26, 2017
2. ↑ CV of Hans Magnus Enzensberger on studienstiftung.de [PDF]
3. ↑ Prof. Berthold Kellermann. ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: walchenseemuseum.de, accessed on September 25, 2017. 
4. ^ City of Frankfurt: local advisory boards. In: frankfurt.de, accessed on September 19, 2017.
5. ↑ biography on jonaslanig.de, accessed on November 26, 2017
6. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten, March 23, 2019 ( obituary notice ).
7. ↑ Root list of the Pegnese Flower Order
8. ↑ Root list of the Pegnese Flower Order
9. ↑ Johann Paul Wurfbein's biography in the Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon on google.books.at, accessed on November 27, 2017
10. ^ Rectors of the St. Egidien School in Nürnbergischer's Zion on books.google.at, accessed on November 28, 2017
11. ^ Rectors of the St. Egidien School in Nürnbergischer's Zion on books.google.at, accessed on November 28, 2017
12. ^ Rectors of the St. Egidien School in Nürnbergischer's Zion on books.google.at
13. ↑ Johann Schoner in Nürnbergisches Schehrtenlexicon; or, description of all nuremberg scholars beyderley sexes based on their lives: Th. NS (pp. 559f.) on books.google.at, accessed on November 28, 2011