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15 unusual facts about Gymnasium


Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium, Frankfurt

Famous persons connected to the school are Michael Gahler (born 1960), a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Hesse, and Marco Marin (born 1989), member of the German national soccer team.

Georg-Cantor-Gymnasium

The Georg-Cantor-Gymnasium is a German gymnasium in Halle (Saale) with a special focus on mathematics and the sciences (specialist school).

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996

The German national final for the 1996 Eurovision, organised by ARD, was held on 1 March at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Hamburg, presented by Jens Riewa.

Grey Court School

It is twinned with Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Konstanz, Germany.

Gymnasium

Gymnasium UNT, high school of the National University of Tucumán, Argentina

Hanns-Josef Ortheil

In Germany he attended the Mainz Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, and then the Universities of Mainz, Göttingen, Paris and Rome.

Harburg, Hamburg

The borough has 32 elementary schools and 26 secondary schools (e.g. Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium) including 3 elementary schools and 4 secondary schools in the quarter Harburg.

Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium

This post-WWI hero today is controversially discussed, as he was also involved in the abatement of the Herero uprising in Namibia and the Kapp Putsch.

The Motto of the school is seen on the facade above the main entrance and says "non scholae sed vitae discimus", in English "we learn, not for school, but for life", in its well-known inversion of the saying of Seneca "non vitae sed scholae discimus".

Jan Delay

He attended the bilingual Helene-Lange-Gymnasium from 1986 to 1995.

Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium

As private Latin school founded at 1550, the school has grown into one of the biggest schools in the Hochtaunuskreis.

Lake Park High School

Lake Park has an exchange program with Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany, allowing students to experience each other's culture and lifestyle.

Landfermann-Gymnasium

Founded before 1280 as Schola Duisburgensis, the school was transformed into a Latin school in 1559, which today's Landfermann-Gymnasium acknowledges as its official founding year.

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty

Several streets and schools in Germany are named after him, including the Hölty-Gymnasium in Wunstorf near Hanover; in 2008, the biennial poetry prize Hölty-Preis was created in his name.

Reuchlin-Gymnasium

In class 8 every student has got the choice between Ancient Greek and Naturwissenschaft und Technik (engl. Sciencly and technical education).


Aalborghus Gymnasium

Aalborghus Gymnasium is a secondary school in the city of Aalborg, in North Jutland in Denmark.

Academic Gymnasium Danzig

Due to 450th anniversary of foundation of the Academic Gymnasium at Gdansk, Poland since 1945, which is on 13 June 2008, the National Museum in Gdańsk unveiled a memorial table dedicated to it and its contributions as part of Polish scholary and educational system.

Arvid Genetz

Genetz graduated from the gymnasium in 1866 , graduated from the University of Helsinki as a candidate doctor in 1871 and received his doctorate in 1877 .

Asgiriya Stadium

1915 - His Excellency Robert Chalmers, G.C.B., declares open the new Asgiriya Playing field with its pavilion and gymnasium.

August Horislav Škultéty

August Horislav Škultéty (* August 7, 1819 Veľký Krtíš - † May 29, 1892 Kraskovo) was a Slovak writer, pedagogue ethnographer and director of a first Slovak Gymnasium in Revúca.

Barbara Morgenstern

In addition to having played in a band, she decided on a career in music in 1991 after completing her schooling at the Ernst Meister Gymnasium in Hagen-Haspe.

Bryn Mawr School

Other structures built of complementary materials include Howell (1969) which houses the Upper School and the Edith Hamilton Library, Hardy (1969) for science and math, the Cafeteria (1948), Katherine Van Bibber Gymnasium (1959), the Lower School complex designed by Marcel Breuer (1972), Centennial Hall (1987), the Barbara Landis Chase Dance Studio (1992), the Lower School Science building (1996), the Admissions Cottage (1997), and a variety of small outbuildings and additions.

Carl Menger

After attending Gymnasium he studied law at the Universities of Prague and Vienna and later received a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Cherry Willingham Community School

A new sports complex, complete with dance studio, weights room and gymnasium, changing rooms and a large main sports hall, was officially opened on 10 October 2001 by Princess Alexandra.

Dries van Agt

After receiving his diploma Gymnasium-A at the Augustinianum he studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he received his Doctorate in Law in 1955.

Duden

In 1872, Konrad Duden, headmaster of a Gymnasium (secondary school) in Schleiz, Thuringia, published a German dictionary called the Schleizer Duden, the first Duden.

Frederick Staples Benedict

Among the important works of his firm which he directed were the New York Athletic Club, United States Post Office at Orange, New Jersey, First Bank and Trust Company at Utica, New York, Brooklyn Trust Company, Rutgers College gymnasium, work at Vassar College and the University of Michigan.

Gymnázium Jana Keplera

The Gymnázium Jana Keplera (English: Johannes Kepler Gymnasium or Johannes Kepler Grammar School) is a public gymnasium located in Prague 6 district in Prague, Czech Republic.

Habib Public School

A centrally air-conditioned auditorium cum gymnasium with a capacity for over 1,000 seats has also been built (also known as Toyota Gymnasium).

Hans Scharoun

After the war he was able to realise his architectural understanding, both ambitious and humanistic, in exemplary buildings; e.g., in the Stuttgart apartment towers of Romeo and Julia (1954–59), in the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Lünen (1956–62) and in the famed Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin (1956–63).

Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Jacob attended Gymnasium schools in Berlin and Vienna, obtaining his Abitur school-leaver's qualification from the Ascanian high school in Berlin, under the tutelage of the noted philosopher Otto Friedrich Gruppe.

Herbert S. Goldstein

The synagogue services came first, and then came the gymnasium and the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Hugh Iltis

His father, Hugo Iltis, was a teacher at the Brno Gymnasium, a botanist and geneticist, and a vocal opponent of Nazi eugenics.

Improving America's Schools Act of 1994

It was signed in the gymnasium of Framingham High School (MA).

Isaac Leeser

Born as Isaak Leeser in Neuenkirchen/Rheine, Westphalia, Isaac Leeser received his education at the primary school of nearby Dülmen and thereupon at a gymnasium in Münster.

Ismar Elbogen

Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches Wörterbuch", and then at the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, he received his doctor's degree from the Breslau University.

Jakob Middendorp

He studied the humanities at the Fragerherren gymnasium of Zwolle, philosophy and jurisprudence at Cologne University, where he became doctor of philosophy and both branches of law, and also licentiate of theology; he also taught peripatetic philosophy at the Montanum gymnasium there.

Ján Botto

Ján Botto was a Slovak poet, writer of Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca.

Joanne Winter

In addition, she spent much of her free time training in a gymnasium owned by Jocko Conlan, a local hero and an umpire with Major League Baseball experience.

John Dustin Archbold

From 1893-1914, he contributed nearly $6,000,000 for eight buildings, including the full cost of the Archbold Stadium (opened 1907, demolished 1978; the Carrier Dome was built on this site), Sims Hall (men's dormitory, 1907), the Archbold Gymnasium (1909, nearly destroyed by fire in 1947, but still in use), and the oval athletic field.

Joseph Kehrein

After studying philology at the University of Giessen from 1831 to 1834, he taught at the gymnasium of Darmstadt, 1835–1837, at that of Mainz, 1837–1845, was prorector at the newly founded gymnasium of Hadamar in Nassau, 1845–1846, professor at the same place, 1846–1855, director of the Catholic teachers' seminary at Montabaur, 1855–1876, and at the same time director of the Realschule at the same place, 1855–1866.

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis

From a poor background, Kahnis was educated at the gymnasium of his native town Greiz, and after acting as private tutor for several years began the study of theology at Halle.

Levanga Hokkaido

Levanga plays its home games mainly at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center and the Tsukisamu Dome, but, as the team represents the entire Hokkaido Prefecture, also plays some home-games at the Atsubetsu Ward Gymnasium, Otaru City Gymnasium, Eniwa City Gymnasium, Obihiro City Gymnasium & Kushiro Shitsugen no Kaze Arena.

Liodor Palmin

In 1856, after his father's death, Liodor Palmin enrolled into the 3rd Saint Petersburgh gymnasium and, upon the graduation, joined the law faculty of the Saint Petersburgh University.

Mansfield Christian School

In subsequent years, the school experienced four building expansions that included additional classrooms, a gymnasium, athletic fields, and a student-run radio station, WVMC-FM.

MTV Africa Music Awards 2009

The 2nd MTV Africa Music Awards were held on October 10, 2009 at the gymnasium of the Moi International Sports Centre complex in Nairobi, Kenya and were hosted by Haitian-American artist Wyclef Jean.

Nic Romm

After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast

There are sixteen secondary schools, two schools specializing in the English language, one gymnasium, physics-mathematics lyceum, three professional colleges, Southern-Ural Polytechnical College, Music College, Ozyorsk Engineering Institute (an affiliate of Moscow Engineering-Physical State University), and affiliates of Yekaterinburg's and Chelyabinsk's universities.

Peter Löscher

Peter Löscher graduated from Gymnasium Villach/Austria in 1978 and got a master's degree at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

After finishing the Gymnasium Middelburg, he began to study classical languages in 1890 at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1899 on a study of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes.

Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium

Rivne Ukrainian gymnasium (RUG) is a new type school in Rivne, Ukraine.

Robert Franz Schmidt

Schmidt completed his A-level examinations in 1953 and graduated from the Neusprachliches Gymnasium in Frankenthal.

Robert Russa Moton Museum

The all-black R.R. Moton High School, named after Robert Russa Moton, a noted educator from neighboring Amelia County, did not have a gymnasium, cafeteria, or teachers' restrooms.

Sheboygan South High School

Naming rights for the school's new gymnasium were acquired by Acuity Insurance, with the weight room/fitness center being sponsored by Aurora Health Care and open to use by the public outside of school hours.

Šimun Debelić

He was born in Prkovci, finished local schooling in 1912 and gymnasium in Vinkovci in 1920.

Søren Ulrik Thomsen

He moved with his family to Copenhagen at sixteen and enrolled in secondary school at Rysensteen and, after being expelled, at Det Frie Gymnasium, where he completed his upper secondary education, making him eligible for university studies.

Srđan Mrkušić

Born in a small Dalmatian town of Podgora, Mrkušić started playing football in the city of Split where he moved to for gymnasium studies.

University of San Jose–Recoletos

In 1980, CSJ-R bought a new site in Basak Pardo, Cebu City, then built the new building for the grade and high schools, the Recoletos Coliseum, Open Gymnasium and the Pope Paul II Retreat House.

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

After unsuccessful attempts to enroll in the gymnasium at Sremski Karlovci, for which 19 year-old Karadžić was too old, Karadžić left for Petrinje where he spent a few months learning Latin and German.

Vyacheslav von Plehve

In 1851 Plehve's family moved from Meshchovsk to Warsaw, where his father accepted a job as instructor in a gymnasium.

Winny Puhh

The founding members, Ove, Indrek, and Olavi knew each other from their school (Põlva Gymnasium).

Þorsteinn Gylfason

Þorsteinn graduated from the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík gymnasium in 1961 and subsequently received a grant to study at Harvard University.