Thorner Gymnasium

The Thorner Gymnasium (Schola Thoruniensis) was founded in 1568 in the evangelical town of Thorn based on the Strasbourg model ( Johannes Sturm ) in the abandoned Franciscan monastery . Similar schools were the Akademisches Gymnasium Gdansk (founded in 1558) and the Elbingisches Gymnasium .

history

The founding rector was Matthias Breu . The school was elevated to an academic high school in 1594 on the initiative of Mayor Heinrich Stroband (1548–1609), who expanded the library.

Copper engraving by Christoph Hartknoch: Thorn in 1684. Marked
with C are S. MarienKirch u. high school

In the late 17th century , Christoph Hartknoch , who came from Lyck , was the director of the Thorner Gymnasium, an important historian of the history of the monastic state , Royal Prussia (Old and New Prussia) and Poland-Lithuania . In 1724 the school was closed for a year after a bloody incident and the Franciscan monastery was rebuilt. In 1800, the rector Johann Wilhelm Süvern removed the academic superstructure above the school, as it had long since ceased to meet the university requirements.

In addition, one of the oldest portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus , who was born in Thorn in 1473 and died in Frauenburg in 1543, was located there from around 1580 .

Teacher

Gottlieb Aenetius (1574–1631) was a German physicist, 1607–1610 Vice Rector
Johann Friedrich Bachstrom (1686–1742), theologian, physician, technician, writer and educator
Julius Bergenroth (1817–1896), classical philologist, member of the Prussian House of Representatives, honorary citizen of Thorn
Johann Matthias Matsko (1721–1796), mathematician and astronomer

student

Gustav Bansi
Carl Kiehn
Theodor Körner
Friedrich Christian Kries
Johannes Magirus (1615–1697), physician, mathematician and university professor
Petrus Mederus (1602–1678), poet, teacher and clergyman
Karl Steinbart (1852–1923), German banker and art collector
Andreas Vengerscius
Carl Woelck
Kurt Woelck

literature

Message from the Gymnasium zu Thorn, 1840, digitized
Message from the Gymnasium zu Thorn, 1819, digitized
Georg Gottlieb Dittmann, Contributions to the History of the City of Thorn , 1789, p.71ff, Rector and Professoves of the Thornisches Gymnasium since its first foundation in 1568

Web links

Gimnazjum Akademickie w Toruńskim

Individual evidence

↑ Sven Tode: Education and knowledge culture of the clergy in Gdansk in the early modern period . In: HJ Selderhuis, Markus Wriedt (Hrsg.): Education and denomination: Theological training in the age of denominationalization . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 9783161489310 , p. 67 ( online ).
^ Marzena Zacharska: Public Voivodeship Library and Nicolaus Copernicus City Library . In: Marzena Zacharska, Todorka Nikolova (edit.): Handbook of German historical book stocks in Europe . Volume 6: Poland, Bulgaria . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10359-1 ( online ).
^ Andreas Kühne, Stefan Kirschner, Gudula Metze: Biographica Copernicana. The Copernicus Biographies from the 16th to 18th Centuries . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-003848-9 (Nikolaus Kopernikus: Complete Edition. Volume 9. Online ).

[1] Sven Tode: Education and knowledge culture of the clergy in Gdansk in the early modern period . In: HJ Selderhuis, Markus Wriedt (Hrsg.): Education and denomination: Theological training in the age of denominationalization . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 9783161489310 , p. 67 ( online ).

[2] Marzena Zacharska: Public Voivodeship Library and Nicolaus Copernicus City Library . In: Marzena Zacharska, Todorka Nikolova (edit.): Handbook of German historical book stocks in Europe . Volume 6: Poland, Bulgaria . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10359-1 ( online ).

[3] Andreas Kühne, Stefan Kirschner, Gudula Metze: Biographica Copernicana. The Copernicus Biographies from the 16th to 18th Centuries . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-05-003848-9 (Nikolaus Kopernikus: Complete Edition. Volume 9. Online ).