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Schottengymnasium

Schottengymnasium 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 LandtagEduard Herbst (1820–1892), Justice Minister of CisleithaniaFranz Coronini von Cronberg (1833–1901), President of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies • Heinrich von Wittek (1844–1930), Minister-President of CisleithaniaAloys von Liechtenstein (1846–1920), of Lower Austria • Hugo von Glanz-Eicha (1848–1915), Minister of Trade of CisleithaniaGuido von Call (1849–1927), Diplomat, Minister of Trade of CisleithaniaEngelbert Pernerstorfer (1850–1918), Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies • Alfred III. zu Windisch-Grätz (1851–1927), Minister-President of CisleithaniaVictor Adler (1852–1918), founder of the Social Democratic Party of AustriaHeinrich von Lützow (1852–1935), diplomat • Heinrich Lammasch (1853–1920), last serving Minister-President of CisleithaniaFranz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853–1938) • Franz Klein (1854–1926), Justice Minister of CisleithaniaKarl Beurle (1860–1919), Member of the Upper Austrian Landtag (Deutsche Volkspartei) • Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1863–1918), Minister-President of CisleithaniaViktor Kienböck (1873–1956), Austrian finance ministerPrince Karl Aloys of Liechtenstein (1878–1955), Austrian Rittmeister and Governor of LiechtensteinCharles I of Habsburg-Este (1887–1922), last Emperor of AustriaKarl 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 PartyJohannes 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 MozarteumFerdinand 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 MuseumPeter Planyavsky (born 1947), organist, composer • Friedrich Dolezal, cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraClemens Hellsberg (born 1952), violinist, member of the board of the Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraHerbert Föttinger (born 1961), actor, director of the Theater in der JosefstadtKonstantin 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 InstituteErnest Hauswirth (1818–1901), historian • Karl Friesach (1821–1891), astrophysicistFranz von Hauer (1822–1899), geologist • Sigismund Gschwandner (1824–1896), physicistHugo Mareta (1827–1913), GermanistVincenz Knauer (1828–1894), philosopher • Hugo Kremer von Auenrode (1833–1888), Rector of the University of PragueAnton Mayer (1838–1924), historian • Karl Exner (1842–1914), physicistHeinrich Obersteiner (1847–1922), neurologistCölestin Wolfsgruber (1848–1924), church historianHans von Chiari (1851–1916), pathologistHeinrich Friedjung (1851–1920), historian, journalist • Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930), ophthalmologistFranz von Liszt (1851–1919), jurist, criminologist, politician • Sigmund Adler (1853–1920), historian • Friedrich Becke (1855–1931), mineralogistJakob Minor (1855–1912), scholar • August Sauer (1855–1926), scholar • Joseph Seemüller (1855–1920), GermanistAlexander Dedekind (1856–1940), EgyptologistJulius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), psychiatristHeinrich Swoboda (1861–1923), pastoral theologian • Lothar von Frankl-Hochwart (1862–1914), neurologistAlbert Starzer (1863–1909), historian • Eduard Zirm (1863–1944), ophthalmologistIvo Pfaff (1864–1925), historian of law • Ernst Kalinka (1865–1946), classical philologist, rector of the University of InnsbruckAlbert Hübl (1867–1931), historian • Carl von Kraus (1868–1952), GermanistMichael Maria Rabenlechner (1868–1952), scholar • Maximilian Bittner (1869–1918), orientalistKarl Inama von Sternegg (1871–1931), genealogist, scholar of heraldryClemens von Pirquet (1874–1929), immunologistCarl Furtmüller (1880–1951), psychologistFranz Exner (1881–1947), criminologistKarl 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 economicsGeorg Braulik (born 1941), biblical scholar (Old Testament) • Kurt Gschwantler (born 1944), classical archaeologistWolfgang Lutz (born 1956), demographerMatthias Scheutz (born 1966), researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive scienceMichael Schaefberger (born 1967), opinion pollster • Drehli Robnik (born 1967), scholar in film studies Others Urban Loritz (1807–1881), ministerSebastian Brunner (1814–1893), theologian, writer • Anton von Petz (1819–1885), admiralHermann Schubert) (1826–1892), ministerClemens Kickh (1827–1913), Hofprediger (preacher at court) • Adolf Kern (1829–1906), ministerSigmund Mayer (1832–1920), businessman • Alexander von Dorn (1838–1919), publicist, economist • Leopold Rost (1842–1913), abbot of the SchottenstiftAlbert 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 AgencyFritz 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 EUFranz Hlavac (born 1948), Wirtschaftsjournalist (ORF) • Johannes Jung (born 1952), abbot of the SchottenstiftAndreas 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 ViennaRudolf Mitlöhner (born 1965), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Die Furche magazine • Lothar Tschapka (born 1966), elocutionistGeorg Spatt (born 1967), director of the Hitradio Ö3 radio channel at the ORF (broadcaster) (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) • Niki Zitny (born 1973), golfer ==References==
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