Schottengymnasium

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Phone +43 1 53498318		Founded 1807

Address Freyung 6, 1010 Wien, Austria Similar Theresian Academy, Akademis Gymnasi, Bundesg Wasagas, Privates Gymnasi Sacré Co, Schottens

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Schottengymnasium (Scots College) (officially Öffentliches Schottengymnasium der Benediktiner in Wien) is a Catholic private school 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 laureats, many notable politicians, artists and scientists.

Politicians

Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (1800–1872), Austrian Minister-President

Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary

Othmar Helferstorfer (1810–1880), Abt des Schottenstiftes, Landmarschall von Niederösterreich

Josef von Bauer (1817–1886), niederösterreichischer Landtagsabgeordneter

Eduard Herbst (1820–1892), Justice minister of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary)

Franz Coronini-Cronberg (1830–1901), Präsident des österreichischen Abgeordnetenhauses

Heinrich von Wittek (1844–1930), Minister-President of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary)

Aloys von Liechtenstein (1846–1920), Landmarschall von Niederösterreich

Hugo von Glanz-Eicha (1848–1915), cisleithanischer Handelsminister

Guido von Call (1849–1927), Diplomat, cisleithanischer Handelsminister

Engelbert Pernerstorfer (1850–1918), Vizepräsident des österreichischen Abgeordnetenhauses

Alfred III. zu Windisch-Grätz (1851–1927), Minister-President of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary)

Victor Adler (1852–1918), founder of the Social Democratic Party of Austria

Heinrich von Lützow (1852–1935), diplomat

Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), last serving Minister-President of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary)

Franz I of Liechtenstein (1853–1938), regierender Fürst von Liechtenstein

Franz Klein (1854–1926), Justice minister of Cisleithania

Karl Beurle (1860–1919), oberösterreichischer Landtagsabgeordneter (Deutsche Volkspartei)

Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1863–1918), Minister-President of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary)

Viktor Kienböck (1873–1956), Austrian finance minister

Karl I of Habsburg-Este (1887–1922), last Emperor of Austria

Karl Appel (1892–1967), member of the National Council of the Austrian Parliament (SPÖ)

Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein (1906–1989), Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein

Leopold Guggenberger (born 1918), Mayor of Klagenfurt (ÖVP)

Hans Tuppy (born 1924), österreichischer Wissenschaftsminister (ÖVP), Biochemist

Manfred Mautner Markhof (1927–2008), member of the Federal Council of the Austrian Parliament (ÖVP), entrepreneur

Franz Hums (born 1937), österreichischer Arbeits- und Sozialminister (SPÖ)

Michael Graff (1937–2008), general secretary of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)

Peter Marboe (born 1942), Wiener Kulturstadtrat (ÖVP)

Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein (born 1945), ruling Prince of Liecthenstein

Wolfgang Schüssel (born 1945), former Chancellor of Austria (ÖVP)

Rudolf Scholten (born 1955), former Austrian Minister of Science and Education (SPÖ)

Christoph Chorherr (born 1960), former head of the Austrian Green Party

Johannes Peterlik (born 1967), Austrian diplomat

Arts

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

Alexander von Bensa (1820–1902), artist

Ferdinand Kürnberger (1821–1879), writer

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer

Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer

Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet

Karl Julius Ebersberg (1831–1876), writer

Franz von Jauner (1831–1900), actor, theatre director

Otto Bach (1833–1893), church musician, director of the Mozarteum

Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), writer

Josef von Doblhoff-Dier (1844–1928), writer, diplomat

Alfred von Berger (1853–1912), dramaturge, director of the Burgtheater (Imperial Court Theatre)

Max von Ferstel (1859–1936), architect

Max Kurzweil (1867–1916), artist

Maximilian Liebenwein (1869–1926), artist

Leopold Andrian (1875–1951), writer, diplomat

Alfred Neugebauer (1888–1957), writer

Otto Friedländer (1889–1963), writer

Georg Terramare (1889–1948), playwright

Paul Elbogen (1894–1987), writer

Eduard Volters (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

Ernst Haeusserman (1916–1984), theatre director, stage director, writer and film producer

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), poet

Wilfried Seipel (born 1944), former director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Peter Planyavsky (born 1947), organist, composer

Friedrich Dolezal, cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Clemens Hellsberg (born 1952), violinist, member of the board of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Herbert Föttinger (born 1961), actor, director of the Theater in der Josefstadt

Konstantin Reymaier (aka Erich Konstantin Reymaier) (born 1969), organist, composer, Catholic priest

Rainer Frimmel (born 1971), photographer, film director

Xaver Bayer (born 1977), writer

Gottlieb Wallisch (born 1978), pianist

Science

Adalbert Nikolaus Fuchs (1814–1886), director of the Polytechnic Institute

Ernest Hauswirth (1818–1901), historian

Karl Friesach (1821–1891), astrophysicist

Franz von Hauer (1822–1899), geologist

Sigismund Gschwandner (1824–1896), physicist

Hugo Mareta (1827–1913), Germanist

Vincenz Knauer (1828–1894), philosopher

Hugo Kremer von Auenrode (1833–1888), Rector of the University of Prague

Anton Mayer (1838–1924), historian

Karl Exner (1842–1914), physicist

Heinrich Obersteiner (1847–1922), neurologist

Cölestin Wolfsgruber (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

Sigmund Adler (1853–1920), historian

Friedrich Becke (1855–1931), mineralogist

Jakob Minor (1855–1912), scholar

August Sauer (1855–1926), scholar

Joseph Seemüller (1855–1920), Germanist

Alexander Dedekind (1856–1940), Egyptologist

Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), psychiatrist

Heinrich Swoboda (1861–1923), pastoral theologian

Lothar von Frankl-Hochwart (1862–1914), neurologist

Albert Starzer (1863–1909), historian

Eduard Zirm (1863–1944), ophthalmologist

Ivo Pfaff (1864–1925), historian of law

Ernst Kalinka (1865–1946), classical philologist, rector of the University of Innsbruck

Albert Hübl (1867–1931), historian

Carl von Kraus (1868–1952), Germanist

Michael Maria Rabenlechner (1868–1952), scholar

Maximilian Bittner (1869–1918), orientalist

Karl Inama von Sternegg (1871–1931), genealogist, scholar of heraldry

Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929), immunologist

Carl Furtmüller (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

Peter Beck-Mannagetta (1913–1998), geologist

Michael Mitterauer (born 1937), historian

Günter Virt (born 1940), theologian

Herbert Laszlo (1940–2009), scholar in happiness economics

Georg Braulik (born 1941), biblical scholar (Old Testament)

Kurt Gschwantler (born 1944), classical archaeologist

Wolfgang Lutz (born 1956), demographer

Matthias Scheutz (born 1966), researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science

Michael Schaefberger (born 1967), opinion pollster

Drehli Robnik (born 1967), scholar in film studies

Others

Urban Loritz (1807–1881), minister

Sebastian Brunner (1814–1893), theologian, writer

Anton von Petz (1819–1885), admiral

Hermann Schubert) (1826–1892), minister

Clemens Kickh (1827–1913), Hofprediger (preacher at court)

Adolf Kern (1829–1906), minister

Sigmund Mayer (1832–1920), businessman

Alexander von Dorn (1838–1919), publicist, economist

Leopold Rost (1842–1913), abbot of the Schottenstift

Albert Figdor (1843–1927), banker, art collector

Karl Graf Lanckoroński (1848–1933), patron of art

Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851–1914), national economist

Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), national economist

Wilhelm Janauschek (1859–1926), missionary

Julius Meinl III (1903–1991), entrepreneur (Julius Meinl)

Heinrich Treichl (born 1913), general manager of the Creditanstalt Bank

Otto Schönherr (1922–2015), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Austria Press Agency

Fritz Molden (1924–2014), journalist, publisher

Gustav Harmer (born 1934), beer brewer (Brauerei Ottakringer, Grieskirchner)

Heinrich Ferenczy (born 1938), abbot of the Schottenstift and Stift St. Paul in Lavanttal

Hans-Georg Possanner (1940–2006), Pressesprecher der Ständigen Vertretung Österreichs bei der EU

Franz Hlavac (born 1948), Wirtschaftsjournalist (ORF)

Johannes Jung (born 1952), abbot of the Schottenstift

Andreas Treichl (born 1952), general manager of the Erste Bank

Christoph Herbst (born 1960), Constitutional Court judge

Nikolaus Krasa (born 1960), vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna

Rudolf Mitlöhner (born 1965), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Die Furche magazine

Lothar Tschapka (born 1966), elocutionist

Georg Spatt (born 1967), director of the Hitradio Ö3 radio channel at the ORF (broadcaster) (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)

Niki Zitny (born 1973), golfer

References

Schottengymnasium Wikipedia

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