Gymnasium bei St. Anna

The Gymnasium bei St. Anna is a school in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, founded in 1531 and still active.

St Anne Gymnasium was the school to be trusted to educate new leaders for the Protestant town.

The students were from the age 7 to 16 and taught in nine classes: the literature, introduction to the dialectic ( logic), and rhetoric based on the ancient Greek and Latin, a little Hebrew.

Under his leadership the school acquired an excellent reputation as a reformed and progressive institution.

This tradition was further developed under Hieronymus Wolf’s leadership who recruited an outstanding faculty to tech at the Gymnasium including Georg Henisch