Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
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High school
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in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. In the tradition of the European gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
it provides a free education that includes classical languages such as Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
and Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
. The school is one of the most prestigious in Argentina. Many personalities, including two Nobel
Nobel laureates by country
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laureates, four Presidents of Argentina and a four-time Grammy awardee and six-time Oscar nominee have studied there.
History
Its origins date to 1661, when it was known as Colegio Grande de San Carlos, when the colonial government entrusted the Jesuit Order with the education of the youth. After the Papal suppression of the JesuitsSuppression of the Jesuits
The Suppression of the Jesuits in the Portuguese Empire, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by 1767 was a result of a series of political moves rather than a theological controversy. By the brief Dominus ac Redemptor Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus...
from Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire
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-controlled South America in 1767, the institution languished until 1772, when governor Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo
Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo
Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo was a Spanish colonial politician born in New Spain, and Viceroy of the Río de la Plata.-Biography:...
reopened the school as the Real Colegio de San Carlos. Vértiz, already appointed Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
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, renamed the school Real Convictorio Carolino in 1783, a name that endured until 1806. Thereafter, the school changed of name and program several times.
President Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre Martínez was an Argentine statesman, military figure, and author. He was the President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868.-Life and times:...
redesignated the institution as the Colegio Nacional in 1863, and since 1911 the school has been administered by the University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires is the largest university in Argentina and the largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos...
. Originally only for men, the school has admitted women as students since 1957.
Nowadays, students from the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires rank among the best in most science olympiads, such as the IPhO, IChO
International Chemistry Olympiad
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and IBO
International Biology Olympiad
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.
Alumni
Alumni include many of Argentina's founding fathers, Presidents, members of political parties of all ideologies, internationally recognized scientists, artists and ideologists, and two NobelNobel Prize
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laureates. A partial list includes:
- Alberto ManguelAlberto ManguelAlberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places , A History of Reading , The Library at Night and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography ; and novels such as News...
- writer, bibliophile, essayist, journalist - Luis AgoteLuis AgoteLuis Agote was an Argentine physician and researcher. He was one of the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant...
- devised the first effective method of blood transfusion - Roberto AizenbergRoberto AizenbergRoberto Aizenberg was a painter and sculptor...
- Surrealist painter - Marcelo Torcuato de AlvearMarcelo Torcuato de AlvearMáximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco , better known as Marcelo T. de Alvear was an Argentine politician and President of Argentina from October 12, 1922 to October 12, 1928.-Biography:...
- President of Argentina, 1922-1928 - Manuel BelgranoManuel BelgranoManuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano , usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine economist, lawyer, politician, and military leader. He took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and created the Flag of Argentina...
- leader in the Argentine War of IndependenceArgentine War of IndependenceThe Argentine War of Independence was fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown...
, creator of the national flag - Fabián BielinskyFabián BielinskyFabián Bielinsky was an Argentine film director born in Buenos Aires.He started to make films early in his life, while still a high school student in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, after graduation he started studying psychology, a career he shortly followed and dropped out in favor to...
- Argentine cinema director - Miguel CanéMiguel CanéMiguel Cané was an Argentine writer, lawyer, academic, journalist, and politician....
- writer, diplomat and lawmaker - Martín CaparrósMartín CaparrósMartín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in...
- journalist, writer - Gregorio de LaferrèreGregorio de LaferrèreGregorio de Laferrère was an Argentine politician and playwright.-Life and work:Gregorio de Laferrère was born in Buenos Aires to Mercedes Pereda, a local heiress, and Alfonso de Laferrère, a prominent French Argentine landowner. One of three brothers, he earned his secondary school education at...
- playwright and lawmaker - Juan Bautista EgusquizaJuan Bautista EgusquizaJuan Bautista Egusquiza Isasi was President of Paraguay 25 November 1894 - 25 November 1898. He was elected to one four-year term as were most presidents of Paraguay of his era. He was a member of the Colorado Party....
- President of Paraguay, 1894-1898 - Bernardo HoussayBernardo Houssay-External links:* * . WhoNamedIt.* . Nobel Foundation....
- Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1947 - Agustin P. Justo - President of Argentina, 1932-1938
- Alejandro KornAlejandro KornAlejandro Korn was an Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiaty hospital in Melchor Romero , named as the city. He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student’s vote...
- philosopher and lawmaker - Salvador MazzaSalvador MazzaSalvador Mazza was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist, best known for his strides in helping control American trypanosomiasisan endemic disease among the rural, poor majority of early 20th century South America....
- epidemiologist who helped control Chagas diseaseChagas diseaseChagas disease is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an insect vector, the blood-sucking insects of the subfamily Triatominae most commonly species belonging to the Triatoma, Rhodnius,...
locally - Father Carlos MugicaCarlos MugicaCarlos Mugica was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.-Early life:Carlos Francisco Sergio Mugica was born in Buenos Aires, in 1930, into a privileged background...
- activist priest, assassinated in 1974 - José Pablo Ventura - student activist, assassinated in 1977
- José Luis MuratureJosé Luis MuratureJosé Luis Murature was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, professor and foreign minister of Argentina from 1914-1916.Born in Buenos Aires, the son of José P. Murature and Dolores Legarrete, he was educated at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires. Murature was...
- Foreign Minister of Argentina, 1914-1916 - Carlos PellegriniCarlos PellegriniCarlos Enrique José Pellegrini Bevans was President of Argentina from 6 August 1890 to 12 October 1892....
- President of Argentina, 1890-1892 - Ignacio Pirovano - surgeon, performed first local laparotomyLaparotomyA laparotomy is a surgical procedure involving a large incision through the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. It is also known as coeliotomy.- Terminology :...
- Nicolás RepettoNicolás RepettoNicolás Repetto was an Argentine physician and leader of the Socialist Party of Argentina.-Biography:Nicolás Repetto was born in Buenos Aires in 1871 and enrolled at the prestigious Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a public college preparatory school. He was introduced to politics by a friend and...
- co-founder of the Socialist Party of Argentina and Cooperative movement leader - Carlos Saavedra LamasCarlos Saavedra LamasCarlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.-Biography:...
- Nobel laureate - Roque Sáenz PeñaRoque Sáenz PeñaRoque Sáenz Peña Lahitte was President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to 9 August 1914, when he died in office...
- President of Argentina, 1910-1914 - Lalo Schiffrin - composer and pianist, born Boris Claudio Schifrin, Grammy-award winner and Academy award nominee
- Nicolas EntelNicolas EntelNicolas Entel is a filmmaker. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His latest project is the documentary Sins of My Father, which tells the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son, as well as the sons of his most prominent...
- filmmaker.
Facilities
The school offers an astronomy observatoryObservatory
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed...
, a swimming pool, a cinema, a sports campus with football, rugby, handball, volleyball and basketball courts. Free classes are available such as astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, languages, sailing
Sailing
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, tango, theater, history of cinema, Yoga, piano, chess, band production and martial arts
Martial arts
Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
. The sailing team has won many of the local competitions. It also has a choir, which sings in the most important school events.
Enrollment
Admission is competitive involving several exams after a year-long course. Every year 1,200 candidates apply but only around 400 gain admission. There are about 2,000 students, who pay no fees since the school is public and therefore free.Building
Designed by French architect Norbert Maillart and opened in 1906, some of the most recognizable features of the French neo-classical building include the two symmetric white marbleMarble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
main staircases, the water fountain in one of the courtyards, the ornately-decorated assembly hall and its organ; and the Colonial-era tunnels that are accessible from the basement, notably from a hidden entrance behind the projection-screen area in the film auditorium.
See also
- Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos PellegriniEscuela Superior de Comercio Carlos PellegriniThe Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini is a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America....
- Instituto Libre de Segunda EnseñanzaInstituto Libre de Segunda EnseñanzaThe Instituto Libre de Segunda Enseñanza is a high school that depends on the Universidad de Buenos Aires. It has approximately 1000 students, and it is located in Libertad 555 street, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina....