The Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem or the Latin School of Haarlem is a secondary school in

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, Netherlands. The school was founded in 1389 and is therefore one of the oldest schools in the world. The school offers '' voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs'' (preparatory scientific education) exclusively and is an independent gymnasium enrolling 822 students and 95 teachers, for a teacher/student ratio of 8.6.

History

In 1389 a

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was begun north of the St. Bavochurch in the Schoolsteeg. After the

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when the city council seized all Catholic possessions, the school moved in 1592 to the quarters of the old

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monastery located behind the

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. The current school is still located there on the Prinsenhof, that can be reached via the Jacobijnestraat. It still offers a classical curriculum, including studies in

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and

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. The first rector recorded is in 1301.''Deugd boven geweld, Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995'', edited by Gineke van der Ree-Scholtens, 1995, , p88 In 1389 the city was given the privilege of appointing the rector together with the pastor of the Bavo. The rector was paid by the fees paid by students. He also took in students from outside the city and received extra fees for room and board. From his income, he paid the teachers () himself. The basis for education was the artes liberales, whereby parts of the Trivium were given in Latin and the Quadrivium included music, since the choir boys needed to sing in church. For boys studying theology, Hebrew lessons were given in addition to Latin (Greek only became available from 1522). Students wanting to continue their studies, needed to leave the country before the

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was founded in 1579. According to the archives of the , a religious institution formerly located at what is now the Hofje van Oorschot, they had a fund from 1502 to 1577 (the ) for sending good students to

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to further their studies there. In 1553, when the school had been run by Junius, they even petitioned

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for the right to found a university in Haarlem, but this was never answered. After the Satisfactie van Haarlem in 1577, the books of all the monasteries and cloisters in Haarlem were given to the Latin school and the rector Cornelis Schonaeus (1540–1611) took two weeks to draw up the inventory list. This same Schonaeus was the one who was in charge of moving the school from the schoolsteeg to the current location in 1583.Schonaeus
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. During the years 1864-1875 and again from 1925–1933, the school merged with the Hogere Burger School (Haarlem), due to a decrease in enrollment.

Notable alumni

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* Ed Spanjaard – conductor * L.H. Wiener – writer * Jan Kops – Baptist preacher and professor agronomy at the University of Utrecht * Edward Brongersma – Dutch politician, lawyer, jurist and criminologist * Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck – Dutch linguist, anthropologist and writer * Jan Kruseman – Dutch jurist and president of the Court of Amsterdam *

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References

External links

Website of the Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem
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History

Notable alumni

See also

References

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