A. T. Laurian National College ( ro, Colegiul Național "A. T. Laurian") is a public day high school in

Botoșani Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Western Moldavia, Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. ...

, Romania, located at 19 Nicolae Iorga Street. The school was founded as a gymnasium in 1859. When classes began that September, there were two teachers handling all subjects, twelve pupils, four fir benches, a table, an elm chair and a blackboard. In January 1868, two upper-level grades were added, and in the ensuing years, the school became a center of local cultural activity.

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was an early alumnus."Topul celor mai bune licee din România"
''Adevărul'', July 4, 2013 A new building was inaugurated in 1885, at which point the school was named after August Treboniu Laurian and elevated to a high school. Among the individuals who studied there from the 1880s until the eve of World War I were Nicolae Iorga,

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, Simion Sanielevici,

Ion Th. Simionescu Ion Th. Simionescu (born Ion Gheorghiu; 10 July 1873—7 January 1944) was a Romanian geologist, paleontologist and naturalist. Born in Hemeiuș, Fântânele, Bacău County, his parents Maria and Toader Gheorghiu died when he was a young child. He ...

,"File din Istoria Laurianului"
at the A. T. Laurian National College site

Ludovic Dauș Ludovic Dauș ( – November 17, 1954) was a Romanian novelist, playwright, poet and translator, also known for his contributions as a politician and theatrical manager. He was born into a cosmopolitan family, with a Czechs of Romania, Czech fath ...

Constantin Gane Constantin Gane (March 27, 1885 – April or May 1962) was a Romanian novelist, amateur historian, biographer and memoirist. Born into the Boyars of Wallachia and Moldavia, boyar aristocracy of Western Moldavia, he worked as a lawyer in Bucharest, ...

and

Barbu Lăzăreanu Barbu Lăzăreanu (born Avram Lazarovici,Valentin Chifor, "Lăzăreanu Barbu", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, pp. 839–840. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. or Bercu Leizerovici,Constantin Io ...

.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, p. 839. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. Later attendees included

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Alexandru Graur Alexandru Graur (; July 9, 1900 – July 9, 1988) was a Romanian linguist. Born into a Jewish family in Botoșani, Graur graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (1 ...

and Lucien Goldmann. World War I seriously impacted school life; between 1917 and 1922, teaching took place in improvised locations and finally in the former building of another school. The old building was repaired in 1922, and the institution flourished during the interwar period. In the 1927–1928 school year, there were 521 pupils, of whom 69% were Christian and 31% Jewish.Mitchell Cohen, ''The Wager of Lucien Goldmann'', p. 22. Princeton University Press, 1994, In 1948, the new communist regime changed the institution's name to Secondary School No. 1; ''Laurian'' was restored in 1960. During the 1960s and '70s, the school saw the establishment of a periodical, a museum and annual reunions, as well as material improvements. In 1999, a decade after the Romanian Revolution, it was granted the title of national college."Summary"
at the A. T. Laurian National College site The school building is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010: Județul Botoșani
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