The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical '' gymnasium'' school in the Neustadt district of

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

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The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical school. The first foreign language taught is

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and the second is English. Later, three foreign languages (including ancient languages) are required.

History

The school was founded as a

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school in Mainz on 9 December 1561 and was originally called the ' (Prince-Electoral College of the Society of Jesus). Between 1618 and 1782 the school was co-located with the university in the ''Domus Universitatis''. In 1773/1774, under the aegis of

Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (12 November 1707 – 11 June 1774) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774, in which capacities he was notable for introducing reforms i ...

, the school was reformed in line with the ideals of the

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and was given the name ' (Prince-Electoral Mayencian Emmerichian Gymnasium). In the following 200 years, the school changed its name and location several times. In 1859

Heinrich Bone Heinrich Bone (25 September 181310 June 1893) was a German educator and hymnwriter. He wrote a reader for German studies which was used for higher education in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria, until it was banned during the Kulturkampf. ...

was made director of the school, at the behest of the Bishop of Mainz,

Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler Baron Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (25 December 181113 July 1877) was a German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz. His social teachings became influential during the papacy of Leo XIII and his encyclical '' Rerum novarum'' ...

. In the course of the ''

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'', he was prematurely removed from office. In 1945, the school building was destroyed by fire. In the following years, classes were held in what is now the

Willigis Gymnasium Willigis ( la, Willigisus; german: Willigis, Willegis; 940 – 23 February 1011 AD) was Elector of Mainz, Archbishop of Mainz from 975 until his death as well as archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire. Life Willigus was born in the Duchy of Sax ...

. The director was August Mayer (1945–1958). The school moved back to the rebuilt school in the Kaiserstraße on 14 June 1953, and was renamed Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, after

Rabanus Maurus Rabanus Maurus Magnentius ( 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the ...

Notable alumni

Year of

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in parentheses * Peter Paul Weinschenck aka Pablo Tabernero (1926) cinematographer * (1978), chemist * (1931), art historian *

Werner Best Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-''Obergruppenführer'', Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret ...

(1921), leading Nazi *

Axel Börsch-Supan Axel Börsch-Supan (born 28 December 1954 in Darmstadt) is a German researcher, economist and director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany. He is P ...

(1973), economist * Gerold von Braunmühl (1955), diplomat, victim of the

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* , (1973), economic historian * (1976), philosopher * (1976), journalist (

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

) * (1962), former member of

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, president of the German Israeli Society *

Romano Guardini Romano Guardini (17 February 1885 – 1 October 1968) was a German Catholic priest, author, and academic. He was one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in the 20th century. Life and work Guardini was born in Verona, I ...

(1903), Catholic philosopher of religion and theologist *

Walter Hallstein Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first President of the European Commission, President of the European Commission, Commission of the European Economic Community ...

(1920), German and European politician (1950s to 1970s) *

Adam Karrillon Adam Karrillon (12 May 1853 – 14 September 1938) was a German writer and physician. In 1923 he won the Georg Büchner Prize The Georg Büchner Prize (german: link=no, Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German langu ...

(1873), writer *

Klaus Mayer Klaus Mayer (24 February 1923 – 16 December 2022) was a German Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Mainz and was an . Biography Mayer was born in Darmstadt on 24 February 1923. Due to his half-Jewish heritage from his father, Karl Jakob Ma ...

(1942), priest * (1948), local politician and writer * (1979), gallery owner and art historian *

Harald Martenstein Harald Martenstein (born 9 September 1953, in Mainz) is a German journalist and author. Biography Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg. From 1981 to 1988, he was a journalist at the ''Stuttgarter Zeitung'' and from 1988 ...

(1972), journalist *

Ferdy Mayne Ferdy Mayne (or Ferdie Mayne) (born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel; 11 March 1916 – 30 January 1998) was a German-British stage and screen actor. Born in Mainz, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in the early 1930s to escape the Nazi regi ...

(emigrated in the 1930s), film actor * (1960), lawyer, former member of

and top civil servant * (1947), Catholic priest and teacher * (1979), organ expert * (1981 as Dorothea Dittrich), member of Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament * (1967), physician and professor Hochschullehrer, vice president of the

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* (1989), member of Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament * (1978), chanson singer-songwriter * (1995), playwright * (1987), film director *

Carl Zuckmayer Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. Life and career Born in Nackenheim in Rhenish Hesse, he was t ...

(1914), writer

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