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Caspar Friedrich Hachenberg

Caspar Friedrich Hachenberg (14 December 1709 (baptised) – 1 April 1793), was rector of the Latin School of Wageningen, The Netherlands (1740–1789) and writer of Greek and Latin grammars.


Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg

In September 1588, he founded his first school, a Latin school in an abandoned monastery in Schüttorf.

Eugen Klöpfer

He subsequently attended the Lateinschule (Latin School) in Lauffen and then the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn.

Gustav Rümelin

After studying theology at Tübingen, he devoted himself to teaching, became rector of a Latin school in 1845, and professor at the gymnasium of Heilbronn in 1849, having in the meanwhile been a delegate to the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.

Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium

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

University of Siegen

In 1536, William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg charged Saxon educator and theologian Erasmus Sarcerius with the task of establishing a Latin school.


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Adolf Pfister

He was educated at the Latin school at Hechingen, at the Lyceum of Rastatt, and later at Sasbach.

Albrecht von Wallenstein

In 1597, Albrecht was sent to the Protestant Latin school at Goldberg (now Złotoryja) in Silesia, where the then German environment led him to hone his German language skills.

Bernard of Utrecht

Bernard of Utrecht (also Bernard d'Utrecht, Latinised Bernardus Ultrajectensis) was a cleric of the late eleventh century, known for an allegorical commentary on the Ecloga of Theodulus, a standard Latin school text.

Cecilia Galloway

In 1999 she was described as providing "inspirational leadership" at the Royal Latin School by John Bercow MP, in the House of Commons.

Charles K. Tuckerman

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Tuckerman was educated at that city's Latin School.

Ferdinand Janner

Janner completed his schooling at the Latin school of Amberg.

Franciscus van den Enden

After the bankruptcy of his art shop, he opened a Latin school on the Singel.

Johannes Musaeus

After visiting the Latin school in Arnstadt he studied at the University of Erfurt starting from 1633 in the Arts Faculty and in Jena with Damiel Stahl.

Kaspar Ulenberg

After completing his studies he taught for a short time in the Latin school at Lunden in Dithmarschen; he was then sent by his family to Cologne to convert to Protestantism a kinsman who had become Catholic.

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.

Lorenz Hengler

At the age of fourteen he entered the Latin School of Leutkirch and attended successively those of Ehingen and Tübingen.

Michael Berland

He is on the Board of Trustees at The Latin School of Chicago and chairs the Gotham chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) chapter in New York City.

Richard Storrs Willis

He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841.

Schrevelius

His son Cornelis Schrevel, 1608-1661, linguist and rector of the Latin school in Leiden