Fasori Gimnázium
Fasori Gimnázium (lit. "secondary school on the tree-lined avenue"; fasori=tree lined, gimnazium=secondary school), also known as Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium ("Fasori" Lutheran Secondary School), official name: Budapest-Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium, 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  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 semiotician
 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

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Gymnasiums in Hungary
Schools in Budapest
1823 establishments in the Austrian Empire
19th-century establishments in Hungary
Educational institutions established in 1823