It was initially located in a small old building near a pharmacy on the Great Square, on the site of the present City Hall.

In 1753, it moved to the upper story of a house located at the corner of what are now Mitropoliei and Samuel von Brukenthal streets.

Among those who attended were Gheorghe Lazăr (1801-1802), August Treboniu Laurian (1827-1828), Ioan Axente Sever (1835-1840) and Simion Balint.

[1] Change came to the school as a result of the 1848-1849 Revolution, which prompted Education Minister Count von Thun to reorganize the gymnasiums of Transylvania in December 1849.

Among its 20th century attendees were Aurel Bărglăzan (1923), Emil Cioran (1928), Gheorghe Șoima (1928), Nicolae Manolescu (1956), Virgil Vătășianu and Paul Goma,[1] as well as Delia Velculescu.

[2] The latter includes four sections, the first of which contains manuscripts, historic documents related to the political and economic life of Transylvania and correspondence from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as old religious texts.

[2] They are leather-bound, carefully printed, engraved, decorated with vignettes, scenes from antiquity, human profiles and illustrations.

Finally, the collection of old Romanian books goes back to 17th-century volumes with wood covers, bound in leather and with traces of locks.