Fasori Gimnázium also known as Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium ("Fasori" Lutheran Secondary School), official name: Budapest-Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium, is a famous secondary school

Secondary school

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 in Budapest

Budapest

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, Hungary

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. It is located near the City Park

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.

History

The school was founded by the Lutheran Church

Lutheranism

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 in 1823. It was originally situated at Deák Ferenc square

Deák Ferenc square (Budapest)

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, but moved to Sütő utca in 1864, and finally to its current location in Városligeti fasor ("Tree lined Avenue to the City Park") in 1904, receiving its present nickname. Its original language of instruction was German, however it had to close in 1952 under Communist pressure. The Fasori Gimnázium re-opened as a Hungarian-speaking school in 1989.

Notable alumni and teachers

It has been one of the best secondary schools in Hungary. Among its students were the following:

• Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize
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   winner physicist and mathematician)
• John Harsanyi
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   (Nobel Prize winner economist)
• John von Neumann
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   (mathematician and polymath)
• Edward Teller
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   (physicist)
• György Faludy
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   (poet)
• Emmerich Kalman
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   (composer)
• Kálmán Kandó
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   (inventor) – for five years
• Sándor Petőfi
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   (poet) – for two years

Among the further students and teachers were Georg Lukács

Georg Lukács

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, Theodor Herzl

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, Antal Doráti

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, Alfréd Haar

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, Miksa Fenyő

Miksa Fenyo

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, Gyula Szepesy

Gyula Szepesy

Gyula Szepesy Hungarian descriptive linguist.-Life:He spoke ca. 20 languages fluently. He studied not only spoken languages such as German, Finnish, Swedish, Russian but classical languages Latin and Old Greek, too. He translated Horace's Best Odes and Ammianus Marcellinus' The Roman History from...

, Adolf Fényes, Miksa Falk

Miksa Falk

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, Aurél Stein

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 and Vilmos Tátrai.

László Rátz

László Rátz

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was a legendary teacher of mathematics in the school, after whom a Medal and an Achievement Award was later named.