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The Jean Sturm Gymnasium (French: Gymnase Jean-Sturm, German: Jean-Sturm-Gymnasium) is a private Protestant school in Strasbourg, teaching children from the third year of secondary education through to the Baccalaureat.
Sturm created a Protestant Gymnasium in 1538 with the mandate of disseminating knowledge, one of the core values of Humanism. Through the years, the Gymnasium progressively developed into an Academy and a University before it finally became the Royal University in 1631.
The first "gymnasium" in Strasbourg. In Strasbourg the reformer Martin Bucer was also interested in education. In 1538 he contributed to the foundation of the first “gymnasium” (a kind of secondary school) in Strasbourg. It was to become famous under its first rector, the humanist Jan Sturm.
In 1538, Johannes Sturm founded at Strasbourg the school which became the model of the modern German gymnasium. [3] In 1812, a Prussian regulation ordered all schools with the right to send their students to the university to bear the name of gymnasium.
Sep 27, 2024 · Johannes Sturm (born Oct. 1, 1507, Schleiden, Julich—died May 3, 1589, Strassburg) was a German educator whose Latin Gymnasium at Strassburg became a model for secondary schools in Protestant countries during the Reformation.
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A complete humanist education was offered at Strasbourg, Germany, in a gymnasium (secondary school that prepared students for a university) led by Johann Sturm (1507–1589). The Strasbourg Latin school was established in 1538, with Sturm as rector (head), in an effort to consolidate two earlier humanist schools.
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The first truly Protestant gymnasium, created by Johann Sturm at Strasbourg in 1538, united a Latin school to a superstructure consisting of university-level chairs. Such chairs in arts, philosophy, and theology, and sometimes in law and medicine, prepared pupils in or near their hometowns for university level functions or academic degrees ...
