The Evangelical Lutheran Lyceum (Evanjelické lyceum) in

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, was founded in 1606 by

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as a

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high school. Until 1656 the Evangelical Lyceum was a school with eight classes, two of them elementary school. Among its students, from 1829 to 1836, was the young

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, who became a member of Czech-Slav Society at the school, an important influence on his life as a Slovak nationalist. Between 1923 and 1989 the school was closed, but it was reopened in 1991 as a bilingual school, and continues to operate today.

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