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Revision as of 22:28, 28 May 2008 by 71.137.204.208 (talk) (edit)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Academic Gymnasium Danzig (Template:Lang-pl,Template:Lang-de) was a school founded in the city state of Danzig, a Hanseatic city governed with Lübeck law, which in 1945 became Gdańsk, Poland), that operated from 13 June 1558 to 1817. It is by some considered as one of the most developed educational centers in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It also was the site of Collegium Medicum-one of the first assocations of doctors in Polish territories. For most of its existence it had a character similar to that of a university. After Partitions of Poland when the western or royal Prussian city was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia 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 Culm and Elbing (now Chełmnoand Elbląg), until Catholic bishop Stanislaus Hosius closed them.
With many cities in Royal 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 large enough to educate all the new protestant clerics and administrators needed for the newly Lutheran state in addition to arivals 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 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 Elbing and Thorn (now Elbląg and Toruń), the gymnasium transformed the province of 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.
At the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the Academic Gymnasium (since 1945 in Poland), which will be on 13th June 2008, the National Museum in Gdańsk will unveil a memorial table dedicated to it and its contributions as part of Polish scholary and educational system.
References
- ^ Encyklopedia PWN "Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie"
- Reinhard Golz, Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Luther and Melanchthon in the Educational Thought of Central and Eastern Europe, 1998, ISBN 3825834905
- 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
- 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
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