Staatliches Wilhelmsgymnasium
On Thierschstraße in Munich stands the Staatliches Wilhelmsgymnasium, a school building completed in 1879 in the Neo-Renaissance style. Its façade keeps to the classical symmetry that architects of the era admired. It houses one of the few humanist gymnasiums left in Bavaria. That tradition puts the classics at the centre: Ancient Greek and Latin lead the timetable, with English alongside.
Duke Albrecht V founded the school in 1559 as a Paedagogium, and by 1773 the Jesuits were running it. In 1849 it took the name of Duke Wilhelm V, its likely patron. The Allied bombing of 1944 devastated the building, and significant rebuilding efforts restored it. Girls joined in the 1970s, when it became coeducational.
The classrooms changed again between 2015 and 2018, when a major renovation fitted modern facilities behind the historic walls. Among its former pupils you will find composer Anton Diabelli, writer Lion Feuchtwanger and philosopher Carl Jung.
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