Schottengymnasium

Catholic school in Vienna

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Schottengymnasium (officially the Öffentliches Schottengymnasium der Benediktiner in Wien) is an independent Catholic gymnasium with public status in the First District of Vienna. The school was founded in 1807 by imperial decree, and is considered one of the most prestigious schools in Austria. Alumni of the school include three Nobel laureates, several notable politicians, monarchs, 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
Othmar Helferstorfer [Wikidata] (1810–1880), Abbot of the Schottenstift, Landmarschall [de] of Lower Austria
Josef von Bauer (1817–1886), member of the Lower Austrian Landtag
Eduard Herbst (1820–1892), Justice Minister of Cisleithania
Franz Coronini von Cronberg (1833–1901), President of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies
Heinrich von Wittek (1844–1930), Minister-President of Cisleithania
Aloys von Liechtenstein (1846–1920), Landmarschall [de] of Lower Austria
Hugo von Glanz-Eicha (1848–1915), Minister of Trade of Cisleithania
Guido von Call (1849–1927), Diplomat, Minister of Trade of Cisleithania
Engelbert Pernerstorfer (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
Heinrich von Lützow (1852–1935), diplomat
Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), last serving Minister-President of Cisleithania
Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938)
Franz Klein (1854–1926), Justice Minister of Cisleithania
Karl Beurle (1860–1919), Member of the Upper Austrian Landtag (Deutsche Volkspartei)
Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1863–1918), Minister-President of Cisleithania
Viktor Kienböck (1873–1956), Austrian finance minister
Prince Karl Aloys of Liechtenstein (1878–1955), Austrian Rittmeister and Governor of Liechtenstein
Charles I of Habsburg-Este (1887–1922), last Emperor of Austria
Karl Appel (1892–1967), member of the National Council (SPÖ)
Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906–1989)
Leopold Guggenberger (born 1918), Mayor of Klagenfurt (ÖVP)
Hans Tuppy (born 1924), Austrian Science Minister (ÖVP), Biochemist
Manfred Mautner Markhof (1927–2008), member of the Federal Council (ÖVP), entrepreneur
Franz Hums (born 1937), Austrian Labour and Social Affairs Minister (SPÖ)
Michael Graff (1937–2008), general secretary of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
Peter Marboe (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)
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

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
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