page_title: Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium
section_title: Professors
hierarchical_section_title: Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium / Professors
caption_attribution_description: Porträt von Johann Karl August Musäus
context_page_description: The Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium is a secondary school on Herderplatz 14 in Weimar, Germany. Founded in 1712 by Duke William Ernest of Saxe-Weimar, it is the oldest school building in the city. Numerous notable figures such as Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Heinrich Voss, Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer and Johann Karl August Musäus studied here. It is a designated historic site and is one of the few secular buildings of the pre-classical period still remaining in Weimar. It is prominently located in the urban center and is one of three sites forming the UNESCO World Heritage Site Classical Weimar, created in 1998.
context_section_description: Known teachers and professors of the high school (in order of teaching time):
  Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), writer, philologist - 1769 Professor of Ancient Languages and History
  Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz (1769–1851), German church historian and theologian - Teacher until 1798
  Johann Heinrich Voß (1751–1826), poet, translator - Professor from 1804 to 1806
  Franz Passow (1786–1833), classical scholar - from 1807 to 1810 professor of Greek
  Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1786–1851), classical scholar - from 1810 Professor of Philosophy and Greek Literature
  Johannes Schulze (1786–1869), Prussian theologian, scholar, educator and cultural officer - Professor from 1808 to 1812
  Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (1774–1845), philologist, writer, librarian, Goethe's secretary - a professor from 1812 to 1821
  Heinrich Graefe (1802–1868), German educator - spiritual master of the grammar school
  Christian Gottlob Tröbst (1811–1888), theologian, philosopher and mathematician - Professor from 1847
  Otto Apelt (1845–1932), classical scholar and translator - from 1869 to 1898 head teacher or professor
caption: Johann Karl August Musäus
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