Frederiksberg Gymnasium is an upper secondary school ( Danish gymnasium) in the

Frederiksberg Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of ...

district of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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. Its current building, located just off

Falkoner Allé Falkoner Alle ( lit. "Falconer Avenue") is one of the main streets of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Frederiksberg Town Hall Square in the south to Ågade on the border with Nørrebro in the north, linking Allégade with Jagtv ...

, was inaugurated in 2004 to a design by

Henning Larsen Architects Henning Larsen Architects is an international architectural firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen, it has around 750 employees. In 2008, it opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 2011, an office in Munich, ...

. The school has 650 students.

History

Originally a private boys school, the school was founded in 1879 as ''Villakvarterets Forberedelses- og Realskole''. Already the next year changed its name to ''Frederiksberg Latin- og Realskole'' and then again in 1907 to Frederiksberg Gymnasium. Frederiksberg Municipality took over the school in 1917 and in 1946 it was opened to female students. The school moved to Niels Ebbesens Vej and in 2004 it moved into its current building at Falkoner Plads.

Building

The school is located at an urban space which was created as part of the city's plan for the area around Frederiksberg Metro Station. Fifty metres wide and three storeys tall, the glazed front opens to the school's assembly hall from where wide staircases give access to the basement and two upper floor. The two top floors offer a flexible teaching environment with a mixture of open and more closed rooms and visual contact across corridors and interior garden spaces. There are terraces facing the interior courtyard. The basement contains gyms and flex rooms.

Prominent alumni

* 1895:

Holger Scheuermann Holger Werfel Scheuermann (12 February 1877 – 3 March 1960) was a Danish surgeon after whom Scheuermann's disease is named. Biography Holger Werfel Scheuermann was born into a medical family in Hørsholm, a small town between Copenhagen and � ...

, surgeon * 1900:

Kristian Middelboe Kristian Middelboe (24 March 1881 in Brunnby, Sweden – 20 May 1965) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player and leader. Playing in the defender position, he won a silver medal with the Danish national team in the 1908 Summer Olympic ...

, footballer * 1905:

Nils Middelboe Nils Middelboe (5 October 1887 – 21 September 1976) was a Danish amateur track and field athlete and football player as well as a football referee and leader. He represented the Denmark national football team at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Su ...

, footballer * 1907:

Axel Salto Axel Johannes Salto (17 November 1889 – 21 March 1961) was a Danish ceramic artist of international fame. His works also include painting, graphic design and illustrations for books, jewelry and textiles. As author and founder of the art magazin ...

, ceramist * 1910: Frode Lund Hvalkof, officer and World War II resistance fighter * 1916: Henry Skjær, opera singer * 1927: Palle Lauring, writer and historian * 1931: Haldor Topsøe, civil engineer and founder of Haldor Topsøe A/S * 1932:

Sejr Volmer-Sørensen Sejr Volmer-Sørensen (7 February 1914 – 11 May 1982) (also known as Volmer-Sørensen and Win Volmer-Sørensen) was a Danish lyricist, actor, director and television host. Born in Kristianstad, Volmer-Sørensen was adopted by a family of leath ...

, actor * 1941: Erik Koch Michelsen, World War II resistance fighter * 1947:

Bent Melchior Bent Melchior (24 June 1929 – 28 July 2021) was a chief rabbi of Denmark. Life and career Melchior was born to Danish parents in the German city of Beuthen (now Bytom in Poland), where his father, Marcus Melchior, was rabbi. In 1943, durin ...

, Chief Rabbi * 1948: Bent Rold Andersen, politician * 1949: Uffe Harder, writer * 1950: Erling Oxdam, politician * 1955: Christian U. Jensen, mathematician * 1961:

Per Stig Møller Per Stig Møller (, informal: Per Stig; born 27 August 1942 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician. He was a member of the Folketing (Danish national parliament) for the Conservative People's Party from 1984 until 2015, and was Minister for ...

, politician * 1964:

Mogens Lykketoft Mogens Lykketoft (; born 9 January 1946) is a Danish politician who served as Leader of the Social Democrats (''Socialdemokraterne'') from 2002 to 2005. He succeeded Poul Nyrup Rasmussen as party leader. After losing the 2005 parliamentary elec ...

, politician * 1968: Roald Als, caricaturist * 1970: Søren Rislund, comedian * 1970: Jan Monrad, comedian * 1976:

Peter Høeg Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957) is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel '' Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (1992). Early life Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ...

, writer * 1986: Mads Lebech, mayor * 2006:

Freja Beha Erichsen Freja Beha Erichsen (born 18 October 1987), also known as Freja Beha, is a Danish model. Dubbed as the "Queen of Cool", she is known for her androgynous look and for being one of the muses of the late Karl Lagerfeld. Early life and education Er ...

, model

References

External links

Official website
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