Fasori Gimnázium (lit. "secondary school on the tree-lined avenue"; fasori=tree lined, gimnazium=secondary school), also known as Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium ("Fasori" Lutheran Secondary School), official name: Budapest-Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium, is a famous secondary school in Budapest, Hungary. It is located near the City Park. It is noted, together with Minta and the Piarist gymnasiums, for a number of talented students.
History
thumb|Fasori students and faculty, 1929
The school was founded by the Lutheran Church in 1823. It was originally situated at Deák Ferenc square, but moved to Sütő utca in 1864, and finally to its current location in Városligeti fasor ("Tree lined Avenue to the City Park") in 1904, receiving its present nickname. In the first decades of its existence it operated as a German-language institution, and in 1847 Hungarian became the language of instruction It had to close in 1952 under Communist pressure. The Fasori Gimnázium re-opened in 1989.
Notable faculty
- László Rátz, teacher of mathematics, gymnasium director from 1909 to 1914
- , teacher of physics between 1897 and 1935
- György Faludy, poet
- Miksa Fenyő, writer and politician
- Alfréd Haar, mathematician
- John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize winner economist
- John von Neumann, mathematician