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Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Address
Bolívar 263 Buenos Aires Argentina
Coordinates	34°36′40″S 58°22′26″W / 34.611°S 58.374°W / -34.611; -58.374
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1863
Founder	Bartolomé Mitre
Rector	Lic. Valeria Bergman
Gender	Coeducational
Enrollment	2017
Colour(s)	Blue and white
Athletics	Soccer, field hockey, swimming, handball, track and field, basketball, gymnastics, judo, rugby, volleyball, Fencing
Nickname	El Colegio, El Nacional
Affiliation	University of Buenos Aires
Former names	Colegio Grande de San Carlos, Real Colegio de San Carlos, Real Convictorio Carolino, Colegio Nacional
Notable alumni	Manuel Belgrano, Bernardo Houssay, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, José Luis Murature, Lalo Schiffrin
Website	http://www.cnba.uba.ar

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (National School of Buenos Aires) is a public high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires. In the tradition of the European gymnasium it provides a free education that includes classical languages such as Latin and Greek. The school is one of the most prestigious in Latin America. Its alumni include many personalities, including two Nobel laureates and four Presidents of Argentina.

History

Its origins date to 1661, when it was known as Colegio Grande de San Carlos, when the colonial government entrusted the Jesuit Order with the education of the youth. After the Papal suppression of the Jesuits from Spanish Empire-controlled South America in 1767, the institution languished until 1772, when governor Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo reopened the school as the Real Colegio de San Carlos. Vértiz, already appointed Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, renamed the school Real Convictorio Carolino in 1783, a name that endured until 1806. Thereafter, the school changed its name and program several times.

President Bartolomé Mitre redesignated the institution as the Colegio Nacional in 1863, and since 1911 the school has been administered by the University of Buenos Aires. Originally only for men, the school has admitted female students since 1957.

Nowadays, students from the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires rank among the best in most science Olympiads, such as the IPhO, IChO and IBO.

Alumni

Alumni include many of Argentina's founding fathers, Presidents, members of political parties of all ideologies, internationally recognized scientists, artists, and two Nobel laureates. A partial list includes:

Nobel laureates

Politicians and jurists

Heads of State

Other

• Alberto Manguel – writer, bibliophile, essayist, journalist
• Herman Aguinis – business school professor, researcher, author
• Luis Agote – devised the first effective method of blood transfusion
• Roberto Aizenberg – Surrealist painter
• Miguel Cané – writer, diplomat and lawmaker
• Gregorio de Laferrère – playwright and lawmaker
• Martiniano Molina – chef and elected mayor of Quilmes Partido
• Mario Firmenich – Montoneros guerrilla leader
• Alejandro Korn – philosopher and lawmaker
• Ernesto Jaimovich – politician
• Manuel Mendanha – plastic artist
• Film directors: Manuel Antín (founder of the Universidad del Cine), Fabián Bielinsky, Ana Katz, Nicolas Entel (winner Festival de Cine de La Habana)
• Salvador Mazza – epidemiologist who helped control Chagas disease locally
• Father Carlos Mugica – activist priest, assassinated in 1974
• José Pablo Ventura – student activist, assassinated in 1977
• José Luis Murature – Foreign Minister of Argentina, 1914–1916
• Ignacio Pirovano – surgeon, performed first local laparotomy
• Nicolás Repetto – co-founder of the Socialist Party of Argentina and Cooperative movement leader
• Lalo Schiffrin – composer and pianist, born Boris Claudio Schifrin, Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominee
• Bernardo Grinspun – economist, Economy Minister (1983–1985)
• Journalists: Pepe Eliaschev (award-winning journalist 1945–2014), Martín Caparrós, Rolando Hanglin, Mario Mactas
• Ana María Shua (Shoua) – writer
• Aníbal Ponce – psychologist and sociologist.
• Ada María Elflein- Poet
• Alicia Moreau de Justo – political figure, pioneer in women's and human rights.
• Roberto Alemann – lawyer and economist, entrepreneur, antinazi activist, Several times minister of Economy.
• Juan Ernesto Alemann – economist, entrepreneur, antinazi activist, Minister of Economy (1976–1981)
• Mario Roberto Álvarez (1913–2011), architect. He designed the municipal Teatro General San Martín (completed in 1960); the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel (completed in 1969), the Colón Opera House's labyrinthine production facilities (1972), the Buenos Aires headquarters for the state steel concern, Somisa (1977), the Salto Grande Dam (1979) and numerous office buildings.
• Cartoonists: Caloi (creator of Clemente), Nik (creator of Gaturro)
• Julio Montaner – AIDS research pioneer
• Jonathan Cubas Guillen - Neurologist

Facilities

The school offers an astronomy observatory, a swimming pool, a cinema, a sports campus with football, rugby, handball, volleyball, hockey and basketball courts. Free classes are available such as astronomy, photography, languages, sailing, tango, theater, history of cinema, Yoga, piano, chess, band production and martial arts. The sailing team has won many of the local competitions. It also has a choir, which sings in the most important school events.

Enrollment

In accordance with the meritocratic conception of the school, admission is highly competitive. It involves ten exams after a year-long course, testing in language, mathematics, geography, and history. Every year 1,200 candidates apply but only around 400 gain admission. There are about 2,000 students enrolled, who pay no fees since the school is public and therefore free.

See also

• Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini
• Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza
• List of Jesuit sites

References

1. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Censo de Estudiantes Secundarios 2004
2. ^ "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). University of Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
3. Alicia Méndez (2013). El Colegio. La formación de una élite meritocrática en el Nacional Buenos Aires. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. ISBN 9789500741194.
4. "Talleres | Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires". Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
5. "Descripción del Curso" [Description of the Course]. Curso de Ingreso para los Establecimientos de Enseñanza Media de la UBA (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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