Collegium Nobilium (Warsaw)

The Collegium Nobilium was an elite boarding college for the sons of Polish magnates and wealthy nobles (szlachta), founded in 1740 in Warsaw by the Piarist intellectual, Stanisław Konarski, and run by his religious brethren.

[1] It is often confused with another college foundation in Warsaw of the same name, only founded by the Jesuits in 1752 and serving the same demographic.

The aim of the Collegium Nobilium was to educate future leaders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and to prepare them to run the country (see also Great Sejm, Constitution of 3 May 1791).

The school had an unusual syllabus for the time, concentrating on natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy and modern languages, and with less emphasis on Latin and Greek.

Stanisław Konarski selected well-educated teachers and introduced courses in history, law, economics and science.