Stiftsgymnasium Melk
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Stiftsgymnasium Melk is an Austria
n Benedictine
-run gymnasium
in the Lower Austria city of Melk
. The Roman Catholic school is set in the well-known monastery Melk Abbey
. Founded in 12th century as an monastic school
, it is also the oldest Austrian school still in operation.
in Collegeville, Minnesota
since 1966.
called Verein der Altmelker und Freunde (Association of Altmelkers and Friends), which furthermore awards scholarships to current students.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n Benedictine
Order of Saint Benedict
The Order of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests...
-run 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...
in the Lower Austria city of Melk
Melk
Melk is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,222 ....
. The Roman Catholic school is set in the well-known monastery Melk Abbey
Melk Abbey
Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley....
. Founded in 12th century as an monastic school
Monastic school
Monastic schools were, along with cathedral schools, the most important institutions of higher learning in the Latin West from the early Middle Ages until the 12th century. Since Cassiodorus's educational program, the standard curriculum incorporated religious studies, the Trivium, and the...
, it is also the oldest Austrian school still in operation.
Exchange program
The Stiftsgymnasium has offered an exchange program to the Saint John's Preparatory SchoolSaint John's Preparatory School (Collegeville, Minnesota)
Founded in 1857, Saint John’s Preparatory School is a Catholic/Benedictine, co-educational, day and boarding college preparatory school located in Collegeville, Minnesota. The school includes a Middle School consisting of grades 6-8 and an Upper School consisting of grades 9-12...
in Collegeville, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
since 1966.
Notable Altmelkers
The Stiftsgymnasium's alumni as well as other former students are called Altmelkers. There is an alumni associationAlumni association
An alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools , fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organisation...
called Verein der Altmelker und Freunde (Association of Altmelkers and Friends), which furthermore awards scholarships to current students.
- Lambert de SayveLambert de SayveLambert de Sayve, also Saive or Seave was a Flemish composer.-Life:He was a choirboy in his youth at Lambert's cathedral in Liege. As early as 1562 he sang in the Imperial Chapel in Vienna. In 1569 he was master in the Melk Abbey...
(1548–1614), composer - Jacobus GallusJacobus GallusJacobus Gallus Carniolus was a late Renaissance composer of Slovenian ethnicity...
(1550–1591), composer - Gregor WernerGregor Werner-Career:Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau. He served from 1715 to either 1716 or 1721 as the organist at Melk Abbey. During the 1720s he was in Vienna, where he may have studied with Johann Fux and was married on 27 January 1727....
(1693–1766), composer - Johann Georg AlbrechtsbergerJohann Georg AlbrechtsbergerJohann Georg Albrechtsberger was an Austrian musician who was born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.He originally studied music at Melk Abbey and philosophy at a Benedictine seminary in Vienna and became one of the most learned and skillful contrapuntists of his age...
(1736–1809), musician - Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-BellinghausenBaron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-BellinghausenBaron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen/ Friedrich Halm was an Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer of the Austrian Biedermeier period and is more generally known under his pseudonym, 'Friedrich Halm'.He was the son of a district judge at Kraków in Poland, at...
(1806–1871), dramatist and poet - August Sicard von Sicardsburg (1813–1868), architect of the Vienna State OperaVienna State OperaThe Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...
- Karl WernerKarl WernerKarl Werner was an Austrian theologian.-Works:In the second half of nineteenth century, he published monographs related to the doctrines of the great doctors of the medieval and 16th century scholastic. The monographs addressed the thought of, among others, Roger Bacon, St. Bonaventure, St...
(1821–1888), theologian - Carl ZellerCarl ZellerCarl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller was an Austrian composer of operettas.Zeller was born in Sankt Peter in der Au, the only child of physician Johann Zeller and Maria Anna Elizabeth. Zeller's father died before his first birthday, after which his mother remarried Ernest Friedinger...
(1842–1898), composer - Karl KautskyKarl KautskyKarl Johann Kautsky was a Czech-German philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the coming of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of...
(1854–1938), political theoretician and philosopher - Spiridon GopčevićSpiridon GopcevicSpiridon Gopčević or Leo Brenner was a Serbian-Austrian astronomer and historian born in Trieste.His father, also named Spiridon, was a great shipowner in Trieste , but had originated from the village of Podi near Herceg Novi in Boka Kotorska in present-day Montenegro...
(1855-1928), astronomer and historian - Adolf LoosAdolf LoosAdolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was a Moravian-born Austro-Hungarian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau...
(1870–1933), architect - Franz BleiFranz BleiFranz Blei was an essayist, playwright and translator from Vienna...
(1871–1942), writer and critic - Leopold BlauensteinerLeopold BlauensteinerLeopold Blauensteiner was an Austrian academic painter.-Biography:Blauensteiner was the son of Leopold Blauensteiner and Johanna Toscano del Banner. His father died shortly after his birth, and his mother died in 1887, leaving him an orphan. He attended the grammar school in Melk...
(1880–1947), painter - Albert Paris GüterslohAlbert Paris GüterslohAlbert Paris Gütersloh was an Austrian painter and writer.Gütersloh worked as actor, director, and stage designer before he focused on painting in 1921....
(1887–1973), painter - Leopold VietorisLeopold VietorisLeopold Vietoris was an Austrian mathematician and a World War I veteran who gained additional fame by becoming a supercentenarian...
(1891–2002), mathematician and supercentenarian - Franz KönigFranz KönigFranz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958...
(1905–2004), Roman-Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna - Wilhelm BeiglböckWilhelm BeiglböckProf. Dr. Wilhelm Beiglböck was an internist and held the title of Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II....
(1905–1963), internist, war-criminal - Georg, Duke of HohenbergGeorg, Duke of HohenbergGeorg, Duke of Hohenberg , is a grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Hungary, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg....
(* 1929), heir presumptive to the Austrian throne and diplomat - Josef HaderJosef HaderJosef Hader is an Austrian comedian, actor, writer and producer.-Life and work:...
(* 1962), comedian and actor - Otto LechnerOtto LechnerOtto Lechner is an Austrian accordionist.Lechner taught himself to play the accordion starting at age four. He has been blind since age 15. Lechner is currently a member of the group Accordion Tribe and musical director of two ensembles in Vienna, Otto's Jazz Ensemble and Das Erste Wiener Strenge...
(* 1964), musician
Notable teachers
- Bernhard PezBernhard PezBernhard Pez was an Austrian Benedictine historian and librarian.-Life:He studied at Vienna and Krems, and in 1699 entered Melk Abbey...
(1683–1735), historian and librarian - Gabriel StroblGabriel StroblGabriel Strobl was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera....
(1846–1925), entomologist
External links
(German)- History of Stiftsgymnasium (German)