![]() He did complete a major reorganization of the school that was then placed in the hands of his successor, Theodorus Schrevelius. He almost lost his job when the council decided to start a collegie or university there, but perhaps because Leiden had already been founded, this never happened. This same Schonaeus was the one who was in charge of moving the school from the schoolsteeg to the current location in 1583. After the Satisfactie van Haarlem in 1577, the books of all the monasteries and cloisters in Haarlem were given to the Latin school and the rector Cornelis Schonaeus (1540–1611) took two weeks to draw up the inventory list. In 1553, when the school had been run by Junius, they even petitioned Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor for the right to found a university in Haarlem, but this was never answered. According to the archives of the Heilige Geest, a religious institution formerly located at what is now the Hofje van Oorschot, they had a fund from 1502 to 1577 (the Satisfactie) for sending good students to Cologne to further their studies there. Students wanting to continue their studies, needed to leave the country before the Leiden University was founded in 1579. For boys studying theology, Hebrew lessons were given in addition to Latin (Greek only became available from 1522). The basis for education was the artes liberales, whereby parts of the Trivium were given in Latin and the Quadrivium included music, since the choir boys needed to sing in church. From his income, he paid the teachers ( ondermeesters) himself. He also took in students from outside the city and received extra fees for room and board. ![]() The rector was paid by the fees paid by students. In 1389 the city was given the privilege of appointing the rector together with the pastor of the Bavo. The first rector recorded is Meester Gheraerde de scoelmeester in 1301. It still offers a classical curriculum, including studies in Latin and Greek. The current school is still located there on the Prinsenhof, that can be reached via the Jacobijnestraat. After the Siege of Haarlem when the city council seized all Catholic possessions, the school moved in 1592 to the quarters of the old Dominican Order monastery located behind the City Hall. In 1389 a Latin school was begun north of the St. 1531 Sint-Bavokerk on the Grote Markt Expansion realized in 1923 by architect Jan Buijs Peace temple in the hortus, built in 1648 Romantic view of the Hortus from the school's front door in 1688 by Romeyn de Hooghe for the Haarlem city map made to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the siege of Haarlem. The school offers voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs (preparatory scientific education) exclusively and is an independent gymnasium enrolling 822 students and 95 teachers, for a teacher/student ratio of 8.6. The school was founded in 1389 and is therefore one of the oldest schools in the world. ![]() The Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem or the Latin School of Haarlem is a secondary school in Haarlem, Netherlands. ![]()
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