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The Academic Gymnasium Danzig (Template:Lang-de) was a school in the city of Danzig (Gdansk) that operated from 13 June 1558 to March 1945. It had the character of a university for most of its existence. Since the 19th century its name was Städtisches Gymnasium Danzig, in contrast to the (royal) Königliches Gymnasium.

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 University of Königsberg could not educate enough protestant clerics, and thus also a school was founded in a former Franciscan monastery in Danzig. By advice of Johann Hoppe (1512-1565), who had previously worked at schools in Culm and Elbing until Catholic bishop Stanislaus Hosius closed them, Achatius Curaeus (1531-1594) from the University of Wittenberg was made the first rector. Due to the conflict between Gnesio-Lutherans and Philippists, he had to leave.

Persons connected to it were, 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

• 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

Weblinks

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

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