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Former Lutheran Grammar School, Johannes Honterus High School

Colegiul Național Johannes Honterus
Former Lutheran Grammar School, Johannes Honterus High School
Colegiul Național Johannes Honterus
Johannes Honterus School Brasov Building B part 2
ThE cRaCkEr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
school
Current function:
school
Church:
Lutheran
Settlement:
Brassó, Brașov
Address:
Curtea Honterus 3
Historical Hungarian county:
Brassó
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.6405296489, 25.5879087794
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History

The school was built in 1541. The founding humanist Johannes Honterus (1498-1549) drafted the school's regulations (Constitutio Scholae Coronensis) in 1543, which are the oldest in Transylvania. Honterus was a great reformer and also founded a humanist printing press in 1539. Damaged by a strong earthquake in 1738, it was rebuilt between 1743 and 1748. Between 1834 and 1835, under the direction of the architect Andreas Dieners, it was extended by two storeys. Between 1918 and 1939, the second floor, connected to Building C, housed the Saxon Museum of Barcaság (Burzenländer Sächsisches Museum).

Source:  csemadok.sk
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