Schottengymnasium

Schottengymnasium

Schottengymnasium (Scots College) (officially Öffentliches Schottengymnasium der Benediktiner in Wien) is a Catholic private gymnasium with public status in the First District of Vienna. The school was founded in 1807 by imperial decree, and it is considered one of the most prestigious grammar schools in Austria. Alumni of the school include three Nobel laureates, many notable politicians, artists and scientists.^[1]

Notable alumni[]

Politicians[]

Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (1800–1872), Austrian Minister-President
Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary
[Wikidata] (1810–1880), Abbot of the Schottenstift, [de] of Lower Austria
(1817–1886), member of the Lower Austrian Landtag
Eduard Herbst (1820–1892), Justice Minister of Cisleithania
(1830–1901), President of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies
Heinrich von Wittek (1844–1930), Minister-President of Cisleithania
Aloys von Liechtenstein (1846–1920), [de] of Lower Austria
(1848–1915), Minister of Trade of Cisleithania
(1849–1927), Diplomat, Minister of Trade of Cisleithania
(1850–1918), Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies
Alfred III. zu Windisch-Grätz (1851–1927), Minister-President of Cisleithania
Victor Adler (1852–1918), founder of the Social Democratic Party of Austria
(1852–1935), diplomat
Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), last serving Minister-President of Cisleithania
Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938)
(1854–1926), Justice Minister of Cisleithania
(1860–1919), Member of the Upper Austrian Landtag (Deutsche Volkspartei)
(1863–1918), Minister-President of Cisleithania
(1873–1956), Austrian finance minister
Charles I of Habsburg-Este (1887–1922), last Emperor of Austria
(1892–1967), member of the National Council (SPÖ)
Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989)
(born 1918), Mayor of Klagenfurt (ÖVP)
Hans Tuppy (born 1924), Austrian Science Minister (ÖVP), Biochemist
(1927–2008), member of the Federal Council (ÖVP), entrepreneur
(born 1937), Austrian Labour and Social Affairs Minister (SPÖ)
Michael Graff (1937–2008), general secretary of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
(born 1942), Vienna city councillor for cultural affairs (ÖVP)
Hans Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1945)
Wolfgang Schüssel (born 1945), former Chancellor of Austria (ÖVP)
(born 1955), former Austrian Minister of Science and Education (SPÖ)
Christoph Chorherr (born 1960), former head of the Austrian Green Party
(born 1967), Austrian diplomat

Arts[]

Franz Wild (1791–1860), opera singer
Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), actor, playwright
Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), poet
Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), poet
Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), painter
Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), poet, playwright
Anastasius Grün (1806–1876), poet
Gustav von Franck (1807–1860), writer
(1820–1902), artist
Ferdinand Kürnberger (1821–1879), writer
Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer
Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer
Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet
(1831–1876), writer
Franz von Jauner (1831–1900), actor, theatre director
(1833–1893), church musician, director of the Mozarteum
Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), writer
(1844–1928), writer, diplomat
(1853–1912), dramaturge, director of the Burgtheater (Imperial Court Theatre)
(1859–1936), architect
Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), artist
Maximilian Liebenwein (1869–1926), artist
Leopold Andrian (1875–1951), writer, diplomat
Alfred Neugebauer (1888–1957), writer
(1889–1963), writer
(1889–1948), playwright
(1894–1987), writer
(1904–1972), writer
Franz Stoß (1909–1995), actor, director of the Burgtheater (Court Theatre) and the Theater in der Josefstadt
Otto Ambros (1910–1979), writer
(1916–1984), theatre director, stage director, writer and film producer
Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), poet
(born 1944), former director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Peter Planyavsky (born 1947), organist, composer
, cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Clemens Hellsberg (born 1952), violinist, member of the board of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
(born 1961), actor, director of the Theater in der Josefstadt
(aka Erich Konstantin Reymaier) (born 1969), organist, composer, Catholic priest
Rainer Frimmel (born 1971), photographer, film director
Xaver Bayer (born 1977), writer
(born 1978), pianist

Science[]

(1814–1886), director of the Polytechnic Institute
(1818–1901), historian
(1821–1891), astrophysicist
Franz von Hauer (1822–1899), geologist
(1824–1896), physicist
(1827–1913), Germanist
(1828–1894), philosopher
(1833–1888), Rector of the University of Prague
(1838–1924), historian
(1842–1914), physicist
Heinrich Obersteiner (1847–1922), neurologist
(1848–1924), church historian
Hans von Chiari (1851–1916), pathologist
Heinrich Friedjung (1851–1920), historian, journalist
Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930), ophthalmologist
Franz von Liszt (1851–1919), jurist, criminologist, politician
(1853–1920), historian
Friedrich Becke (1855–1931), mineralogist
Jakob Minor (1855–1912), scholar
August Sauer (1855–1926), scholar
(1855–1920), Germanist
(1856–1940), Egyptologist
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), psychiatrist
(1861–1923), pastoral theologian
(1862–1914), neurologist
(1863–1909), historian
Eduard Zirm (1863–1944), ophthalmologist
(1864–1925), historian of law
Ernst Kalinka (1865–1946), classical philologist, rector of the University of Innsbruck
(1867–1931), historian
(1868–1952), Germanist
(1868–1952), scholar
(1869–1918), orientalist
(1871–1931), genealogist, scholar of heraldry
Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929), immunologist
(1880–1951), psychologist
Franz Exner (1881–1947), criminologist
Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), ethologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
Franz Borkenau (1900–1957), Geschichtsphilosopher, Soziologe
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), ethologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
(1913–1998), geologist
(born 1937), historian
(born 1940), theologian
(1940–2009), scholar in happiness economics
(born 1941), biblical scholar (Old Testament)
(born 1944), classical archaeologist
Wolfgang Lutz (born 1956), demographer
(born 1966), researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science
(born 1967), opinion pollster
(born 1967), scholar in film studies

Others[]

(1807–1881), minister
Sebastian Brunner (1814–1893), theologian, writer
Anton von Petz (1819–1885), admiral
(1826–1892), minister
(1827–1913), Hofprediger (preacher at court)
(1829–1906), minister
Sigmund Mayer (1832–1920), businessman
(1838–1919), publicist, economist
(1842–1913), abbot of the Schottenstift
(1843–1927), banker, art collector
(1848–1933), patron of art
Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851–1914), national economist
Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), national economist
(1859–1926), missionary
(1903–1991), entrepreneur (Julius Meinl)
(born 1913), general manager of the Creditanstalt Bank
(1922–2015), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Austria Press Agency
(1924–2014), journalist, publisher
(born 1934), beer brewer (Brauerei Ottakringer, Grieskirchner)
(born 1938), abbot of the Schottenstift and Stift St. Paul in Lavanttal
(1940–2006), Pressesprecher der Ständigen Vertretung Österreichs bei der EU
(born 1948), Wirtschaftsjournalist (ORF)
(born 1952), abbot of the Schottenstift
Andreas Treichl (born 1952), general manager of the Erste Bank
(born 1960), Constitutional Court judge
(born 1960), vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna
(born 1965), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Die Furche magazine
(born 1966), elocutionist
(born 1967), director of the Hitradio Ö3 radio channel at the ORF (broadcaster) (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)
(born 1973), golfer

References[]

^ Humphreys, Rob (1 July 2011). The Rough Guide to Vienna. Rough Guides Limited. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-84836-682-4.

External links[]

Official site (in German)

Coordinates: 48°12′46″N 16°21′52″E / 48.21278°N 16.36444°E / 48.21278; 16.36444

[Humphreys2011-1] Humphreys, Rob (1 July 2011). The Rough Guide to Vienna. Rough Guides Limited. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-84836-682-4.

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