(also known as '','' ), was a

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co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

private

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Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

, Finland, from 1888 to 1977.

History

was founded in the spring of 1888 as an educational institution with nine levels. The founders were head teacher

Viktor Heikel Frans Viktor Heikel (23 August 1842 – 27 July 1927) was a Finland-Swedish gymnastics teacher, known as "the father of Finnish school gymnastics". Life Heikel was born in Turku to educator and priest Henrik Heikel and Wilhelmina Johanna Scha ...

(son of educator

Henrik Heikel Henrik Heikel (14 January 1808 – 14 March 1867) was a Finland-Swedish educator and priest. Life Heikel was born in Oulu, Finland in 1808. He began his studies in 1823, receiving his master of philosophy degree in 1832. Heikel became a lect ...

), assessor Uno Kurtén, private teacher Helena Alfthan and philosophy master Albin Lönnbeck. Lönnbeck was the school's first principal, which gave the school its nickname ''school'', or . The school was founded after a conflict among the teaching staff at '' Läroverket för gossar och flickor'', which led to the founders breaking away and founding a new school. The school was owned by its founders from 1888 to 1899 and by the

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from 1899 to 1977 was one of the leading

schools in Finland during the autonomous period. The curricula was continuously developed until the

Russification of Finland The policy of Russification of Finland ( fi, sortokaudet / sortovuodet, lit=times/years of oppression; russian: Русификация Финляндии, translit=Rusyfikatsiya Finlyandii) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at ...

(1899-1905 and 1908-1917) when all curricula were aligned. During the First World War, as many as 24 of the school's students and staff joined the

Jäger movement The Jäger Movement ( fi, Jääkäriliike sv, Jägarrörelsen) consisted of volunteers from Finland who trained in Germany as Jägers (elite light infantry) during World War I. Supported by Germany to enable the creation of a Finnish sovereign ...

. One of them was historian Eirik Hornborg, who was the school's principal at the time. The school began its operations in Standertskjöld's stone house at Norra kajen 4 in 1888. The following year it moved to a building owned by founder Viktor Heikel on Bulvarden 7-9. In 1911 moved to a building on Andrégatan 12 (later Lönnrotsgatan). By the end of the 1940s, the building was in need of renovation and not big enough to accommodate the growing number of students. The City of Helsinki donated a plot of land by

Töölöntori Töölöntori ( sv, Tölö torg) is an urban square and marketplace in the Töölö district of central Helsinki, Finland. It is bounded in the west by Runeberginkatu and the southern end of Topeliuksenkatu, in the north by Tykistönkatu; Töö ...

and architect

Hilding Ekelund Georg Hilding Ekelund (18 November 1893, in Kangasniemi – 30 January 1984, in Helsinki) was a Finnish architect, from 1950 to 1958 a professor of housing design at Helsinki University of Technology and from 1931 to 1934 editor-in-chief of the Fi ...

was tasked with planning a school building for 450 students. In 1954, moved in to the brand new building on Sandelsgatan 3. When the Finnish education system was reformed in 1977, was split into the

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and the gymnasium . The building on Sandelsgatan 3 has housed ''Tölö gymnasium'' since 2015.

Principals

* 1888-1914 Albin Lönnbeck * 1914-1916 Eirik Hornborg * 1916-1917 Johannes Sundström * 1917-1918 Eirik Hornborg * 1918-1945 Johannes Sundström * 1945-1965 Leo Backman * 1965-1967 Walter von Koskull * 1968-1973 Paul Hägglund * 1973-1977 Boris Lönnqvist

Famous alumni

Lars Ahlfors Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Background Ahlfors was born in Helsinki, Finland. His mother, S ...

, mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of

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and his text on

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. *

Kaj Arnö Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arnö (born 29 June 1963 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finland Swedish IT-entrepreneur and columnist. He is since 2016 (also) a German citizen and has lived in Germany since 2006. He is the former Vice President of the MySQL Communi ...

, businessman, columnist *

Eva Biaudet Eva Rita Katarina Biaudet (born 27 February 1961) is a Finnish politician and Member of Parliament of Finland in the parliamentary group of the Swedish People's Party. She returned to the Finnish Parliament in the parliamentary election of April 2 ...

, politician, former minister *

Staffan Bruun Staffan is a Swedish form of Stephen, attested since 1330. It may refer to: *Staffan Anger (born 1943), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party *Staffan Appelros (born 1950), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party *Staffan Danielsson (born 1947 ...

, journalist, author *

Henrik Dettmann Henrik Dettmann (born 5 April 1958) is a Finnish professional basketball coach who last served as head coach of the French LNB Pro A team SIG Strasbourg and the Finnish national basketball team. He was the head coach of German national basketball ...

, professional basketball coach *

Ilmi Hallsten Ilmi Lovisa Hallsten (née ''Bergroth''; 25 December 1862, in Föglö – 4 January 1936) was a Finnish secondary school teacher and politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1919 to 1922, representing the National Coalition ...

, teacher, activist, politician *

Erik Heinrichs Axel Erik Heinrichs (21 July 1890 – 16 November 1965) was a Finnish military general. He was Finland's Chief of the General Staff during the Interim Peace and Continuation War (1940–1941 and 1942–1944) and commander-in-chief for a short t ...

, military general, Finland's Chief of the General Staff during the

Interim Peace The Interim Peace ( fi, Välirauha, sv, Mellanfreden) was a short period in the history of Finland during the Second World War. The term is used for the time between the Winter War and the Continuation War, lasting a little over 15 months, from 1 ...

and

Continuation War The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.; sv, fortsättningskriget; german: Fortsetzungskrieg. A ...

Barbara Helsingius Barbara Christina Elisabeth Helsingius-Koski (née Helsingius; 27 September 1937 – 9 March 2017) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish singer, poet, and Olympic fencer.Eirik Hornborg Eirik Mikael Hornborg (29 September 1879 – 29 December 1965) was a Finnish historian, educator, writer and politician, born in Helsinki. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1922 and from 1924 to 1927, representing the S ...

, politician, historian, principal, author *

Mirjam Kalland Mirjam is a Dutch, Estonian, Finnish and German feminine given name cognate to Miriam. Notable people with the name include: * Mirjam Bikker (born 1982), Dutch politician * Mirjam van Breeschooten (born 1970), Dutch model * Mirjam Gysling (born ...

, professor * Herman Lindqvist, journalist, author *

Birgitta Lindström Birgitta Lindström (born 14 January 1948) is a Finnish former tennis player. She has also been known by her married name Birgitta Warbach. Lindström was the girls' singles champion at the 1966 Wimbledon Championships and the first Finn to win a ...

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champion 1966 * Jenny Markelin-Svensson, Finland's first female engineer * Yrsa Stenius, journalist, author *

Astrid Thors Astrid Gunilla Margareta Thors (born 6 November 1957) has been a Member of the Finnish Parliament 19 March 2003 – 4 September 2013. A Finnish-Swedish politician, formerly of the Swedish People's Party, Thors is a Candidate of Law and held sever ...

, politician, former minister *

Birgitta Ulfsson Birgitta Margaretha Ulfsson (1 July 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a Finnish actress and theater director. She was a versatile actor and a recognized pioneer of avant-garde theater in Finland.

, actor, director *

Björn Wahlroos Björn Arne Christer Wahlroos (born 10 October 1952 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Swedish-speaking Finn, best known as a banker, investor and the chairman of the Board in Sampo Group and UPM-Kymmene. Before switching to banking Wahlroos worked as a ...

, businessman, investor *

Harald Öhquist Harald Öhquist (1 March 1891, Helsinki – 10 February 1971, Helsinki) was a Finnish Jäger and Lieutenant General during World War II. Biography Öhquist joined the Jaeger Movement in 1915 and trained and fought in the Royal Prussian 27th J ...

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during

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References

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