Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
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The Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums (translation: Academic School of the Johanneum, short: Johanneum) is a Gymnasium (or Grammar School
) in Hamburg
, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen
. The school's motto is The Future needs a Heritage (German: Zukunft braucht Herkunft). The school´s focus is on the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek. It is proud of having educated some of Germany's political leaders as well as some of Germany's notable scientists.
and the Godolphin and Latymer School
. Unlike the Johanneum these English schools do charge fees.
. Living conditions are very simple (the house has only one tap, students sleep in communal bunks, there is no TV and no telephone and students are not allowed to bring their cellphones). All pupils are required to spend 11 days at Hördhütte during their seventh year of schooling. This is believed to build community spirit and strengthen character. The students will also learn how to ski
.
Students from all years have the opportunity to spend their holidays in Hödhütte.
was formed fund this activity.
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
) in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Bugenhagen , also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Among his major accomplishments was organization of Lutheran churches in Northern Germany and Scandinavia...
. The school's motto is The Future needs a Heritage (German: Zukunft braucht Herkunft). The school´s focus is on the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek. It is proud of having educated some of Germany's political leaders as well as some of Germany's notable scientists.
Twinned schools
The school is twinned with the Latymer Upper SchoolLatymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School, founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, is a selective independent school in Hammersmith, West London, England, lying between King Street and the Thames. It is a day school for 1,130 pupils – boys and girls aged 11–18; there is also the Latymer Preparatory School for boys and girls...
and the Godolphin and Latymer School
Godolphin and Latymer School
The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent school for 700 girls aged eleven to eighteen in London. Ms Margaret Rudland was the head mistress of the school for over 20 years before being succeeded by Ms Ruth Mercer.-History:...
. Unlike the Johanneum these English schools do charge fees.
Hödhütte
Hödhütte is the country house of the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. It is located in the Radstädter Tauern, AustriaAustria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. Living conditions are very simple (the house has only one tap, students sleep in communal bunks, there is no TV and no telephone and students are not allowed to bring their cellphones). All pupils are required to spend 11 days at Hördhütte during their seventh year of schooling. This is believed to build community spirit and strengthen character. The students will also learn how to ski
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
.
Students from all years have the opportunity to spend their holidays in Hödhütte.
Visiting historical sites
The school feels that every student should have the opportunity of experiencing the sites of classical antiquity at first hand. The Verein zur Förderung von Schulreisen an klassische Stätten e.V.Eingetragener Verein
Eingetragener Verein is a legal status for a registered voluntary association in Germany and Austria. While any group may be called a Verein, registration as eingetragener Verein holds many legal benefits because a registered association may legally function as a corporate body rather than just...
was formed fund this activity.
Bibliotheca Johannei
The library of the school is called Bibliotheca Johannei. It has 55,000 books written in Latin, Ancient Greek, English, French, Italian and German. The library prides itself in having the first editions of many of the milestones of European literature. The oldest book is a Latin bible dating from 1491.Alumni society
The school has an alumni society called Verein ehemaliger Schüler der Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums zu Hamburg e.V.. It has 1,300 members. One of its main tasks.Former teachers
Former teachers of the school include:- Johannes ClassenJohannes ClassenJohannes Classen was a German educator and classical philologist.Classen was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied philology at the University of Leipzig, afterwards continuing his education at Bonn, where he was a student of Barthold Georg Niebuhr...
- Johann Gottfried Gurlitt
- Johann Hübner
- Adolf KiesslingAdolf KiesslingAdolf Kiessling was a German philologist born in Culm; today Chełmno, Poland.He studied at the University of Bonn under Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, Franz Bücheler and Otto Jahn...
- Ernst Gottlob Köstlin
- Peter PetersenPeter PetersenPeter Petersen is a South African football defender for Maritzburg United and South Africa.-External links:* at National Football Teams...
- Hermann Cäsar Hannibal Schubert
- Gottlob Reinhold Sievers
- Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
(Cantor (church)Cantor (church)A cantor is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir; also called the precentor....
) - Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
(Cantor (church)Cantor (church)A cantor is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir; also called the precentor....
)
Former pupils
Former students of the school include:- Christian Wilhelm Alers
- Wilhelm Amsinck
- Eduard ArningEduard ArningEduard Arning was an English-German dermatologist and microbiologist from Manchester. Arning was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from Strassburg, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under Adolf Kussmaul , and in Berlin...
- Heinrich BarthHeinrich BarthHeinrich Barth was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.Barth is one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa, not necessarily because of the length of his travels or the time he spent alone without European company in Africa, but because of his singular character.-Biography:Barth...
- Johann Bernhard BasedowJohann Bernhard BasedowJohann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.-Early years:Basedow was born in Hamburg,...
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- Peter van BohlenPeter van BohlenPeter von Bohlen was a German Orientalist and Indologist. He was a professor at the University of Königsberg.-Biography:...
- Justus Brinckmann
- Barthold Heinrich BrockesBarthold Heinrich BrockesBarthold Heinrich Brockes was a German poet.He was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and after extensive travels in Italy, France and the Netherlands, settled in Hamburg in 1704...
- Johann Heinrich Burchard
- Johannes ClassenJohannes ClassenJohannes Classen was a German educator and classical philologist.Classen was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied philology at the University of Leipzig, afterwards continuing his education at Bonn, where he was a student of Barthold Georg Niebuhr...
- Diedrich DiederichsenDiedrich DiederichsenDiedrich Diederichsen is a German author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is one of Germany′s most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture....
- Hans Driesch
- Johann Franz EnckeJohann Franz EnckeJohann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn.-Biography:Encke was born in Hamburg, where his father was a...
- Barthold Feind
- Gottfried Forck
- Hinnerk Fock
- Ludwig Gerling
- Ralph GiordanoRalph Giordano (writer)Ralph Giordano is a German writer and publicist.Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a Jewish mother....
- Martin HallerMartin HallerMartin Emil Ferdinand Haller was a German architect, who designed the Hamburg Rathaus and the building of the Consulate General of the United States in Hamburg, and a member of the Hamburg Parliament.- Early life and family :...
- Tobias HaukeTobias HaukeTobias Constantin Hauke is a field hockey player from Germany. He was a member of the Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics....
- Friedrich Hebbel
- Gerrit Heesemann
- Heinrich Hertz
- Gustav Ludwig HertzGustav Ludwig HertzGustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.-Biography:...
- Gerhard HerzbergGerhard HerzbergGerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned...
- Johann Michael Hudtwalcker
- Hans Jauch
- Walter JensWalter JensWalter Jens is a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor, and writer.In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denies having applied for membership actively and claims having been forced to join the party...
- Peter Katzenstein
- Harry Graf KesslerHarry Graf KesslerHarry Clément Ulrich Kessler was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. His diaries "Berlin in Lights" published in 1971 revealed anecdotes and details of the artistic and theatrical life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the collapse of Germany at the end of World War...
- Bernhard Klefeker
- Johann Carl Knauth
- Franz Knoop
- Theodor von Kobbe
- Volker LechtenbrinkVolker LechtenbrinkVolker Lechtenbrink is a German television actor and singer.Lechtenbrink grew up in Hamburg and Bremen and started his career at the age of 15 acting in the anti-war movie The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki...
- Eduard Lohse
- Walter Matthaei
- Max Mendel
- Eduard MeyerEduard MeyerEduard Meyer was a German historian.-Biography:Meyer was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. After completing his studies, he spent one year in Istanbul. In 1879, he went to the University of Leipzig as privatdocent...
- Daniel Gotthilf MoldenhawerDaniel Gotthilf MoldenhawerDaniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer , was a German-Danish philologist, theologian, librarian, bibliophile, palaeographer, diplomat, and Bible translator.- Early life and education:...
- Johann Georg Mönckeberg
- August Johann Wilhelm Neander
- Hans Georg Niemeyer
- Max NonneMax NonneMax Nonne was a German neurologist.Max Nonne was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg University in 1884...
- Hans Erich Nossack
- Adolf OverwegAdolf OverwegAdolf Overweg was a German geologist, astronomer, and traveler from Hamburg. As a member of a mission to fix trade routes in Central Africa he became the first person of European origin to circumnavigate Lake Chad...
- Fredrik PaciusFredrik PaciusFredrik Pacius was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music"....
- Carl Friedrich Petersen
- Wolfgang PetersenWolfgang PetersenWolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...
- Warner Poelchau
- Robert Wichard Pohl
- Wolfgang RatkeWolfgang RatkeWolfgang Ratke was a German educational reformer.-Early life:...
- Hermann Samuel ReimarusHermann Samuel ReimarusHermann Samuel Reimarus , was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on...
- Johann Wilhelm Rautenberg
- Johann Rist
- Erwin RohdeErwin RohdeErwin Rohde was one of the great German classical scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuries.Rohde was born in Hamburg and was the son of a doctor. Outside of antiquarian circles, Rohde is known today chiefly for his friendship and correspondence with fellow-philologist Friedrich Nietzsche...
- Albrecht Roscher
- Thomas G. RosenmeyerThomas G. RosenmeyerThomas Gustav Rosenmeyer was a German-American classical scholar. He was a Professor Emeritus for Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interest was the literature of classical Greece, especially Plato.- External links :*...
- Philipp Otto RungePhilipp Otto RungePhilipp Otto Runge was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.- Life and work :...
- Hjalmar SchachtHjalmar SchachtDr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic...
- Heinrich Gottlieb Schellhaffer
- Leif Schrader
- Carl August Schröder
- Friedemann Schulz von ThunFriedemann Schulz von ThunFriedemann Schulz von Thun is a German psychologist and expert for interpersonal communication and intrapersonal communication. Schulz von Thun worked as a professor of psychology at the University of Hamburg until his retirement on 30 Sep. 2009...
- Ulrich Seelemann
- Gottfried SemperGottfried SemperGottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later...
- Kurt SievekingKurt Sieveking-External links:...
- Eduard Wilhelm SieversEduard Wilhelm SieversEduard Wilhelm Sievers, born March 19 1820 in Hamburg, died December 9 1894 in Gotha, was a German Shakespeare scholar and professor in Gotha....
- Wilhelm SieversWilhelm SieversFriedrich Wilhelm Sievers was a German geologist and geographer. He served as professor of geography at the university of Giessen.Sievers was born into a merchant family in Hamburg...
- Morris SimmondsMorris SimmondsMorris Simmonds was a German physician, pathologist, from a family originating in Hanau but born on the then Danish St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands in Caribbean Sea...
- Bruno StreckenbachBruno StreckenbachBruno Heinrich Streckenbach held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer , when he was the head of Amt I : Administration and Personnel of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , but eventually achieved the rank of SS-Gruppenführer both in Allgemeine-SS and Waffen-SS...
- Georg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael Telemann was a German composer and theologian.Telemann was born in Plön, a grandson of the better-known Georg Philipp Telemann. He is mainly known for the church music he wrote. He died in Riga....
- Bernhard TollensBernhard TollensBernhard Christian Gottfried Tollens was a German chemist.- Life and work :Tollens attended school at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg where he was influenced by his science teacher, Karl Möbius. After graduating in 1857, Tollens started an apprenticeship in pharmacy...
- Karl Ulmer
- Paul Gerson UnnaPaul Gerson UnnaPaul Gerson Unna, was a German physician specialized in dermatology and one of the pioneers in dermatopathology....
- Werner von MelleWerner von MelleWerner von Melle was a mayor and senator of Hamburg, as well as a jurist. Von Melle, who held multiple doctorates, also served on the first board of trustees for the Hamburg Scientific Foundation.-Family:...
- Aby WarburgAby WarburgAbraham Moritz Warburg, known as Aby Warburg, was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded a private Library for Cultural Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, later Warburg Institute...
- Friedrich Wasmann
- Christian Wegner
- Dietrich WersichDietrich WersichDietrich Wersich is a German politician of the German Christian Democratic Union , and physician. Since March 7, 2011 he is chairman of the CDU parliamentary Group in the Hamburg state legislature , the largest opposition party...
- Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal
- Johann Hinrich WichernJohann Hinrich WichernJohann Hinrich Wichern was a founder of the Home Mission movement in Germany.-Biography:...
- Henrik Wiese
- Wolfgang ZeidlerWolfgang ZeidlerWolfgang Zeidler was a German legal scholar and judge. He served as the 5th president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1983 to 1987. Zeidler also served as president of the British-German-Jurists' Association....
- Paultheo von Zezschwitz
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