Home school (Tallinn)

The first mention of the school dates back to the 13th century; it was opened at the Dome Cathedral and it was also called the Dome Cathedral .

The decree of the Danish king Eric VI Menveda (1319) prescribed to teach children of Tallinn citizens only in this school. Violators were fined, a significant part of these funds went to complete the Dome Cathedral.

Balthazar Russov in his "Chronicle ..." described the state of affairs at school extremely negatively .

The school building burned more than once. In 1691, a new school building was erected on the site of a building that burned down in a fire in 1684 ( Toom-Kooli , 4). It got its appearance in after the restructuring in the XIX century, in which the original layout of the building was changed. In 1842, classes were arranged in the building along Toom-Kooli Street 11. ^[1]

City officials have repeatedly tried to open other schools in the Lower City. Over time, the school appeared at the Church of Olevist , then - in the monastery of St. Michael (1631, Gustavus Adolf Grammar School , exists today).

The home school has repeatedly closed and reopened. In April 1887, by order of Emperor Alexander III, all Tallinn schools were translated into Russian as the language of instruction over the next five years. January 19, 1893 The home school was closed. They obtained permission to resume teaching in German on April 26, 1906. Translation into Russian of the teaching took place again after the outbreak of the First World War . In 1919-1939, the school was private ( German: Ritter- und Domschule zu Reval ) and closed after the repatriation of the Ostsee Germans to Germany in the autumn of 1939.

In August 2011, the efforts of the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Andres Pyder , pastor of the Parish of Urmas Vilm , Director of the Education College of the Old Town, Kersti Nigessen, and Executive Director of the Miikaeli Ühendus Society, Ingrid Meister Domestic School was recreated ^[2] . The building on Aptegi street , 3 ^{[3] [4] was} transferred to the school.

Pupils of the school played a big role in Estonian and Russian history.

Johann Burchardt VIII - representative of a well-known family of Tallinn pharmacists, owner of the Town Hall pharmacy

Karl Ernst von Baer (1810) - one of the founders of embryology and comparative anatomy, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Entomological Society, one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society.

Bernhard Gregory is an Estonian chess player, one of the strongest in the Baltic at the beginning of the 20th century.

Jacob Johann Ikskül is a biologist, zoopsychologist and philosopher, one of the founders of zoosemiotics and biosemiotics.

Ivan Kruzenshtern (1785) - the first Russian navigator around the world, admiral.

Alexander Middendorf is a Russian traveler, geographer, zoologist, botanist and naturalist, academician and permanent secretary of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, secret adviser. The founder of permafrost ^[5] .

Gustav Adolf Oldekop - Russian Estonian priest, writer, poet and journalist. Sometimes called the forefather of Estonian journalism.

Pavel Karlovich von Rennenkampf - Russian military leader of the late XIX - early XX centuries.

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Russwurm - historian-ethnographer

Anton Antonovich Shifner - philologist, orientalist

Julius August Philipp Philippe Spitt - German philologist, teacher, musicologist, biographer Johann Sebastian Bach

Heinrich Stahl is a German Lutheran priest and church author, founder of Estonian church literature and written language.

Moritz Hristianovich von Schulz is a cavalry general.

Egor Khristianovich (Georg Julius) von Schulz - MD, writer, translator, folklorist; brother of General M.H. von Schulz.

Moritz Fedorovich von Engelhardt is a professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Dorpat.

E. Rannu. The past of old Tallinn. - Tallinn: Periodicals, 1987.

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