- Fasori Gimnázium
Fasori Gimnázium (lit. "secondary school on the tree-lined avenue"; fasori=tree lined, gimnazium=secondary school), also known as Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium ("Fasori" Lutheran Secondary School), official name: "Budapest-Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium", is a famous
secondary school inBudapest ,Hungary . It is located near the City Park.It has been one of the best secondary schools in Hungary. Among its students were the following:
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Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize winner physicist and mathematician)
*John Harsanyi (Nobel Prize winner economist)
*John von Neumann (mathematician and polymath)
*György Faludy (poet)
*Emmerich Kalman (composer)
*Kálmán Kandó (inventor) – for five years
*Sándor Petőfi (poet) – for two yearsAmong the further students and teachers were
Georg Lukács ,Theodor Herzl ,Antal Doráti ,Alfréd Haar ,Miksa Fenyő ,Gyula Szepesy ,Adolf Fényes ,Miksa Falk , Aurél Stein andVilmos Tátrai .László Rátz was a legendary teacher of mathematics in the school, after whom a Medal and an Achievement Award was later named.The school was founded by the Lutheran Church in 1823. It was originally situated at Deák Ferenc square, but moved to Sütő utca in 1864, and finally to its current location in "Városligeti fasor" ("Tree lined Avenue to the
City Park ") in 1904, receiving its present nickname. It had to cease working in 1952 (during Communism), but it was re-opened in 1989.ee also
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List of notable secondary schools in Hungary External links
* [http://www.fasori.hu/ Website] hu icon
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