The Collège Calvin, formerly the Collège de Genève, is the oldest public secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin.
| Collège Calvin | |
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| Address | |
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Rue Théodore-de-Bèze, 2-4 1211 | |
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| Type | Matura School |
| Established | 1559 |
| Director | Nicolas Levet |
| Staff | approx. 100 |
| Grades | 1st-4th |
| Number of students | approx. 800 |
| Language | French |
| Website | [1] |
History
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On February 24, 1428, the Conseil Général of Geneva decided to establish a college in Rive, near the Franciscan convent, and near the Place du Molard. In it was taught the liberal arts and university studies, which Genevan people had previously had to go abroad to study. After the Protestant Reformation, school was made obligatory and free for poor people on May 21, 1536. A new college was founded, this time in the Franciscan convent.[1]
It was not until May 29, 1559, after the Leges Academiae Genevensis (Order of Collège de Genève) that work began on the actual building of a new official Collège de Genève and Université de Genève. This building would eventually house the Collège de Genève alone. The original edifice is now part of a complex, with a wing added in the Renaissance, another wing and building in the 19th century, and a final building added in 1987. The Collège de Genève was renamed the Collège Calvin in 1969, after its founder, the French Protestant reformer John Calvin.[2]
System
editThe Collège Calvin is one of the Postobligatory Secondary Education Schools in Geneva, specifically under the Formation Gymnasiale collèges. Students who want to pursue an education past the (obligatory) Cycle d'Orientation enter the four-year college from 15 to 19.[3]
Notable alumni
edit- Joseph Baskin
- Marc Bonnant
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Louis Dumur: Les trois demoiselles du père Maire, Le centenaire de Jean Jacques, L'école du dimanche
- Henry Dunant
- Barbara Hofmann
- Philippe Monnier: Le livre de Blaise
- Gustave Moynier
- Marcel Junod
- Didier Pittet
- Jan A. Rajchman (1911-1989)[4]
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
- Jean Starobinski
- Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846)
- Andrew Le Mercier (1692-1764)
- Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841)
References
edit- ^ Du Collège de Genève au Collège Calvin (Historique) Archived February 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2006 Collège Calvin Memento.
- ^ Département de l'instruction publique (206) Enseignement secondaire postobligatoire."Site du postobligatoire - formation gymnasiale". Archived from the original on 2006-10-17. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
- ^ Magoun, Alexander B. (August 2015). "Remembering Jan Rajchman and the Origins of Electronic Memory [Scanning Our Past]". Proceedings of the IEEE. 103 (8): 1426–1433. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2015.2448913. ISSN 1558-2256. S2CID 26893264.
External links
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- Official Collège Calvin Website. (in French)
- History of the Collège. (in French)
- Geneva Postobligatory Secondary Education. (in French)
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