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.
Notable alumni
Politicians Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (1800–1872), Austrian Minister-President Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary (1810–1880), Abbot of the Schottenstift, 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), 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 ( 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
External links Official site