- Academic Gymnasium Danzig
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Academic Gymnasium Danzig Location Gdańsk, Poland Information Established 1558 Campus Urban The Academic Gymnasium Danzig (Polish: Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie, German: Akademisches Gymnasium Danzig) was a school founded in Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland[3] [4], It was founded in 1558 by Johann Hoppe (1512-1565), who had previously worked at schools in Culm Chełmno and Elbing Elbląg until Catholic prince-bishop Stanislaus Hosius closed them. For most of its existence it had a character similar to that of a university and since 1580 was named Akademisches Gymnasium Danzig.
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History
It was in operation as educational gymnasium for Lutheran clergy till 1817.[1] It was one of the most developed educational centers in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.[1] It also was the site of Collegium Medicum-one of the first associations of doctors in Polish territories.[1]
1817 it was changed to a humanistic Gymnasium and named Städtisches Gymnasium Danzig, in contrast to the earlier the (royal) Königliches Gymnasium.
With many cities in Prussia becoming Lutheran, its citizens started to seek Lutheran education. The University of Königsberg in neighbouring state of Ducal Prussia, founded in 1544, was not big enough to educate all the new Protestant clerics and administrators needed for the newly Lutheran state in addition to arrivals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , so local Latin schools in the Commonwealth were upgraded. The future home of the Gymnasium would be the former Franciscan monastery turned into a school. In 1539, a Schola Dantiscana[2] program was started by Andreas Aurifaber. In 1558 Johann Hoppe founded a humanistic gymnasium that would become the Academic Gymnasium Danzig. Achatius Curaeus (1531-1594), from the University of Wittenberg, was made the first rector, but due to the theological conflicts between Gnesio-Lutherans and Philippists, he soon left.
In 1580, the school received the title Academic Gymnasium. Along with similar schools in Elbing and Thorn (now Elblag, Torun), the gymnasium transformed the province of Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century.[3]
The Academic Gymnasium Danzig was in operation until March 1945, when Danzig along with all other eastern Germany east of the Oder-Neisse line were conquered by the Soviet Union.
Famous people
People connected with it are, among others, Bartholomäus Keckermann, Johannes Hevelius, Andreas Gryphius, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Peter Crüger, Abraham Calov, Michael Christoph Hanow (Hanov(ious), Gottfried Lengnich, Hugo Münsterberg, Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Due to 450th anniversary of foundation of the Academic Gymnasium at Gdansk, Poland since 1945, which is on 13 June 2008, the National Museum in Gdańsk unveiled a memorial table dedicated to it and its contributions as part of Polish scholary and educational system.[4]
Rectors
Rectors of Akademic Gymnasium Danzig:
First rector Humanist Achatius Curaeus, advisor Johann Hoppe
- 1580-1629 Jacob Fabritius
- 1602-1609 Bartholomäus Keckermann- co-rector with Fabritius
- 1631-1643 Johann Botsack
- 1643-1650 Abraham Calov
- 1651-1669 Johann Maukisch
- 1670-1682 Aegidius Strauch
- 1685-1715 Samuel Schelwig
- 1717- Michael Christoph Hanow (Hanovious)
- 1717-1730 Johann Georg Abicht
- 1732-1752 Albert Menon Verpoorten
- 1753-1769 Ernst August Bertling
- 1770-1794 Wilhelm Paul Verpoorten
- 1799-1809 Daniel Gralath ? relative of Daniel Gralath
- 1810-1811 Friedrich Theodor Rinck
- 1812-1813 Nicolaus Gottfried Eckermann
- 1814-1817 Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck
References
- ^ a b c Encyklopedia PWN "Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie"
- ^ Reinhard Golz, Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Luther and Melanchthon in the Educational Thought of Central and Eastern Europe, 1998, ISBN 3825834905 [1]
- ^ Urban Latin schools were remodelled into institutions of higher learning; from the middle of the sixteenth century, the three academic Gymnasia in Danzig, Thorn and Elbing transformed Royal Prussia into a centre of classical studies - Karin Friedrich: The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772 [2]
- ^ Sprawy Nauki "Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie"
Literature
- L.Mokrzecki: Studium z dziejów nauczania historii. Rozwój dydaktyki przedmiotu w Gdańskim Gimnazjum Akademickim do schyłku XVII, Gdańsk 1973
- Sven Tode: Bildung und Wissenskultur der Geistlichkeit im Danzig der Frühen Neuzeit, in: Bildung und Konfession, hg. v. H.J. Selderhuis/ M. Wriedt, Siebeck Mohr Tübingen 2006, S. 61 ff. ISBN 3-16-148931-4
- Martin Brecht u.a. (Hg.): Geschichte des Pietismus, Bd. I., Göttingen 1993 ISBN 3525553439
- Siegfried Wollgast: Philosophie in Deutschland zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung 1550-1650, Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1993 ISBN 3050020997
- 425 Jahre Städtisches Gymnasium Danzig. 1558 - 1983. Gedenkschrift für die Ehemaligen und Freunde der Schule, hg. v. Bernhard Schulz, Gernsbach 1983
- Reinhard Golz, Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Luther and Melanchthon in the Educational Thought of Central and Eastern Europe, 1998, ISBN 3825834905 [5]
External links
Categories:- 1558 establishments
- History of Prussia
- Freie Stadt Danzig
- History of Gdańsk
- Educational institutions established in the 1550s
- Education in Gdańsk
- Defunct schools in Poland
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