The () is a specialized secondary school in the city center of Linz, Austria. It is located on , between and . The school is a grammar school focusing on media and sciences, and offers both lower and upper secondary education with optional .
History The school was founded in 1851 as the () on the initiative of the citizens of Linz and the writer and state school inspector of elementary schools for Upper Austria, Adalbert Stifter in . An expansion was completed by autumn 1852, allowing for the enrollment of all grades. By the 1890s the building's facilities in had become inadequate; a new building was finally approved 1903/1904, and opened in 1909 on the corner of and .
The school was renamed after the Austrian Republic was founded in 1918.
Notable alumni Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), German-Austrian Nazi Party official and convicted war criminal, a major organizer of the Holocaust Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German politician and leader of the Nazi Party (; NSDAP) (1900–1904) Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Austrian SS official and convicted war criminal, a major organizer of the Holocaust. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher (1903–1906)
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History of the school