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

Swedish-language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the fourth most spoken Germanic language, and the first ...

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 ...

private

educational institution An educational institution is a place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, primary-elementary schools, secondary-high schools, and universities. They provide a large variety of learning environments a ...

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

, 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 (son of educator Henrik Heikel), 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 foundation 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 (; ; ) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at limiting the special status of the Grand Duchy of Finland and possibly the termination of its political autonomy and cultural uniqueness in 18 ...

(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 () consisted of volunteers from Finland who trained in Germany as Jägers during World War I. Supported by Germany to enable the creation of a Finnish sovereign state, the movement was one of many means by which Germany int ...

. 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 () 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; Töölöntorinkatu fo ...

and architect

Hilding Ekelund Georg Hilding Ekelund (18 November 1893 in Kangasniemi – 30 January 1984 in Helsinki) was a Finland, 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 ...

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

högstadium Högstadium ("high-stadium" or "upper stage") is a Swedish term for the seventh to ninth grade (grundskola) of the Swedish school system. In 1994, it was taken out of official use, but was still used informally. The term was reintroduced when the ...

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 textbook on complex analysis. Background Ahlfors was born in Helsinki, Finland. His mothe ...

, mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of

Riemann surfaces In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold. These surfaces were first studied by and are named after Bernhard Riemann. Riemann surfaces can be thought of as deformed vers ...

and his text on

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic ...

. *

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 Commun ...

, 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 ...

, politician, former minister * Staffan Bruun, 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 basketb ...

, professional basketball coach *

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

, 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 Chief of Defence for a short ...

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

Interim Peace The Interim Peace (, ) 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 13 March 1940 to 24 June 1941. ...

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 during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 ...

* Barbara Helsingius, singer, fencer * Eirik Hornborg, politician, historian, principal, author * Mirjam Kalland, 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 ...

Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * W ...

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

Astrid Thors Astrid Gunilla Margareta Thors (born 6 November 1957) was a Member of the Finnish Parliament from 2003 to 2013. A Finnish-Swedish politician, formerly of the Swedish People's Party, Thors is a Candidate of Law and held several senior jobs before ...

, politician, former minister * Birgitta Ulfsson, actor, director *

Björn Wahlroos Björn Arne Christer "Nalle" Wahlroos (born 10 October 1952) is a Finnish banker, investor, and the former chairman of the Board in Sampo Group, Nordea and UPM-Kymmene. Before switching to banking, Wahlroos worked as a professor at the Hanke ...

, businessman, investor *

Harald Öhquist Harald Öhquist (1 March 1891 – 10 February 1971) was a Finnish Jäger and Lieutenant General during World War II. Biography Öhquist was of Ingrian Finnish descent through his father, Finnish writer Johannes Öhquist, and of German descent ...

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

References

{{coord missing, Finland Schools in Helsinki Educational institutions established in 1888 Educational institutions disestablished in 1977 1888 establishments in Finland Swedish-speaking population of Finland