Gymnasium Mikulov

The establishment of the Gymnasium in Mikulov is credited to the Olomouc bishop Cardinal
František Dietrichstein, and at his request, in June 1631, eight members of the Piarist Order came
directly from Italy to begin writing the history of the school. In the 19th century, the Piarists
advocated for the founding of philosophical schools as an intermediary between the gymnasium and
the university, and as a result, many students from Brno, Olomouc, and even Slovakia came to

Mikulov. A valuable library was also established in the school. At the end of the 19th century, the
school was transferred to state administration, and in 1900, the last Piarist left. During the war, the
school continued to exist, but the number of students decreased, and the Czech Gymnasium was
revived in 1945. In the new millennium, the school was renovated and in 2011 merged with the
secondary vocational school and the technical school. Among the most notable graduates of the
school are musicians Jan Antonín Brosmann and Šimon Kalous, mathematician Kasián Halaša,
astronomer Oktavius Šofka (who established an observatory at the gymnasium), Karl Renner, and
biologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně.