The Fasori Gymnasium (, , fasori=tree lined, gimnazium=secondary school), also known as the Fasori Lutheran Gymnasium (, official name: ), is a famous secondary school in Budapest, Hungary. It is located near the City Park. It is noted, together with Minta and the Piarist gymnasiums, for a number of talented students.
History
The school was founded by the Lutheran Church in 1823. It was originally situated at Deák Ferenc square, but moved to Sütő utca in 1864, and finally to its current location in Városligeti fasor ("Tree lined Avenue to the City Park") in 1904, receiving its present nickname. In the first decades of its existence it operated as a German-language institution, and in 1847 Hungarian became the language of instruction Pálma, Selmeczi: A budapesti Evangélikus Gimnázium Arany János Köre Könyvtárának rövid története, Könyv és nevelés, 2003/1 "Olvasás portál". It had to close in 1952 under Communist pressure. The Fasori Gimnázium re-opened in 1989.
Notable faculty László Rátz, teacher of mathematics, gymnasium director from 1909 to 1914 , teacher of physics between 1897 and 1935 , teacher of mathematics and physics from 1911, director between 1945 and 1948 , philosopher, teacher between 1873 and 1896 , organist and musicologist, music teacher in the 1930s , teacher of literature in the 1930s
Notable alumni
Julius Elischer, architect György Faludy, poet Miksa Fenyő, writer and politician Alfréd Haar, mathematician John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize winner economist György Pásztor, ice hockey player, Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Thomas Sebeok, linguist and semioticianMarcel Danesi and Albert Valdman, 'Thomas A. Sebeok', in: Language, vol. 80, no. 2 (June 2004), pp. 312-317 – article also available online here. John von Neumann, mathematician Eugene Wigner, Nobel Prize winner physicist and mathematician Kálmán Kandó, mechanical engineer Gábor Kornél Tolnai, inventor
See also List of notable secondary schools in Hungary
References
External links
Website