Hohe Karlsschule (''Karl's High School'') was the strict

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founded by

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Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

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. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 for the duke. Politically the duke was quite unimportant and with this school he wanted to enhance his prestige. In 1770, it was moved to Castle Solitude, and in 1775 into the city. Raised in 1781 by

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to university status under the name ''Karls Hohe Schule'', it was disbanded after the death of Duke Carl Eugen by his brother

Ludwig Eugen, Duke of Württemberg Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and co ...

in 1794. The building, situated behind

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, was destroyed in World War II.

Alumni

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

was one of its alumni.Barbara Schubert-Felmy, ''Die Räuber und andere Räubergeschichten'', Schöningh, 1999. . p. 217. He spent eight years of his life in this academy and suffered a lot in his first years of his stay. At first he was considered an average student, but in his second year, he often became ill and his performance suffered. When he joined the school's medical faculty, his life took a turn for the better and Schiller began with poetry.Jürgen Schwarz: Schiller kennen lernen. Lichtenau 2004. S. 6-9. Others were

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(later professor there),

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, Johann Georg Kerner,

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth (20 October 1772 – 2 May 1835) was a German physician born in Stuttgart. He studied medicine at Karlsschule Stuttgart, and following graduation attended lectures by Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832) and Joh ...

Philipp Jakob Scheffauer Philipp Jakob von Scheffauer (7 May 1756, Stuttgart - 13 November 1808, Stuttgart) was a German Neoclassical sculpture, Neoclassical sculptor. Life and work His father was a Lackey (manservant), manservant to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemb ...

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (10 January 1760 – 27 January 1802) was a German composer and conductor. Zumsteeg championed the operas of Mozart in Stuttgart, staging the first performances there of '' Die Zauberflöte,'' ''Don Giovanni,'' and '' ...

, Antonio Boroni,

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Ludwig Abeille Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 in Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist, organist, conductor, music teacher and composer. Life His father was baronial valet and his mother was Christine Louise ...

, Johann Gottlieb Sämann,

Christian Zais Christian Zais (4 March 1770 – 26 April 1820) was a German architect and city planner. Zai was born in Cannstatt, studied at the Karlsschule Stuttgart, and was taught by Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer and Johann Jakob Atzel. He desig ...

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Haug Friedrich Haug (Johann Christoph Friedrich Haug, born 9 March 1761 in Niederstotzingen, died 30 January 1829 in Stuttgart) was a German official and poet. Biography Haug is renowned particularly through his large number of epigrams, which he ...

Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret (born Ludwigsburg, 2 June 1767; died Stuttgart, 17 January 1845) was a German architect and designer. Life and work From 1778 to 1788 he was educated at the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart where he trained as a pa ...

Johann Friedrich LeBret Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

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, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein,

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Fürst von

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Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (22 October 1765 – 14 August 1844) was a German biologist and naturalist born in Bebenhausen, today part of the city of Tübingen. He was a pioneer of '' Naturphilosophie'', helped to establish organic chemistry (''Pfl ...

and Carl Degenkolb.

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Karlsschule im Schiller-Film gedreht 1923 von Curt Goetz

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