Gymnasium Kadaň ( cz, Gymnázium Kadaň) is a Czech regional gymnasium in the

Ústí nad Labem Region Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region ( cs, Ústecký kraj, , ), is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad Labem ...

Kadaň Kadaň (; german: Kaaden) is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 18,000 inhabitants. It lies on the banks of the river Ohře. Kadaň is a tourist centre with highlights being the Francisca ...

. It is the oldest school in

and fifth oldest in

. The school was established in 1803 with 99 students and continued under the control of the

Piarists The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools ( la, Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the ...

until 1823. The institute of Gymnasium was then reestablished in 1872 in a new building. The Gymnasium was again closed in 1951 by communist education reform. A new Gymnasium was established in 1958.

Notable alumni and teacher

* Howorka Franciscus Wenzel - (1851-1913) educator, naturalist, author fishery textbook * P. Virgil Grimmich - (1861-1903) philosopher, theologian, professor at the University of Vienna and Prague * Karl Wilhelm Gawalowski - (1861-1945) writer, librarian * Karl Prodinger - (1875-1948) educator * Carl Furtmüller - (1880-1951) educator, * Victor Hadwiger - (1878-1911) poet, writer * Josef Heinrich - (1879-1943) forest engineer and writer * Petr Hlaváček - (1974) historian *

Theodor Innitzer Theodor Innitzer (25 December 1875 – 9 October 1955) was Archbishop of Vienna and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Early life Innitzer was born in Neugeschrei (Nové Zvolání), part of the town Weipert (Vejprty) in Bohemia, at that time Au ...

- (1875-1955)

Archbishop of Vienna The Archbishop of Vienna is the prelate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna who is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten. From 1469 to 1513, bish ...

and a

cardinal Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...

* Alfred Kleinberg - (1881-1939) professor * Miroslava Kopicová - (1951) Czech politician * Vojtěch Kraus - (1944) professor and painter * Josef von Löschner - (1809-1888) pioneer of modern European balneologie * Johann Nepomuk Oettl - (1801-1866) founder of Czech modern beekeeping * Robert Anton Pöpl - (1812-1866) Franciscan priest, father of orphans * Josef Chaim Sagher - (1875-1946) Zionist, last Rabbi's Kadaň *

Walter Serner Walter Serner (15 January 1889 – August 1942) was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto ''Letzte Lockerung'' was an important text of Dadaism. Life Walter Serner was born Walter Eduard Seligmann in Karlovy Vary, Carlsbad (Ka ...

- (1889-1942) writer, essayist and co-founder of dada *

Heribert Sturm Heribert is a Germanic given name, derived from ''hari'' ("host") and '' beraht'' ("bright"). See also Herbert, another given name with the same roots. * Charibert of Laon (died before 762), also spelled Heribert, Count of Laon and maternal grandf ...

- (1879-1981) historian, archivist * Hugo Karl Tippmann - (1875-1942) American poet and journalist

External links

Gymnasium

Municipal website
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Secondary education Kadaň