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The Academic Gymnasium Danzig (Template:Lang-de) was a school in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) that operated from 13 June 1558 to March 1945. For most of its existence it had a character similar to that of a university. Since the 19th century its name was Städtisches Gymnasium Danzig, in contrast to the (royal) Königliches Gymnasium. It was founded by Johann Hoppe (1512-1565), who had previously worked at schools in Chełmno (Culm) and Elbląg (Elbing) until Catholic bishop Stanislaus Hosius closed them.

Ducal Prussia (with many Royal Prussian cities and gentry following) was the first state to become Lutheran, in 1525, by the advice of Luther himself. The Prussians discontinued studing at the Catholic Cracow Academy in order to seek Lutheran education. The University of Königsberg, founded in 1544, wasn't big enough to educate all the new protestant clerics and administrators needed for the newly Luteran state, so local Latin schools were upgraded. For example, in Danzig, a former Franciscan monastery was turned into a school. In 1539, a Schola Dantiscana progam 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 Elbląg and Toruń Thorn, the gymnasium in Danzig transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century.

People connected with it are, among others, Bartholomäus Keckermann, Johannes Hevelius, Andreas Gryphius, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Peter Crüger, Abraham Calov, Michael Christoph Hanow, Gottfried Lengnich, Hugo Münsterberg, Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Literature

1. Reinhard Golz, Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Luther and Melanchthon in the Educational Thought of Central and Eastern Europe, 1998, ISBN 3825834905
2. Urban Latin schools were remodelled into institutions of higher learning; from the middle of the sixteenth century, the three academic Gymnasia in Danzig, Toruń and Elbląg transformed Royal Prussia] into a centre of classical studies - Karin Friedrich: The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772

• 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

Weblinks

• Leopold von Winter mit Building at the Danzig Wintermarkt , 19th century

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