!!!Theresianum

Theresianum, institution established in the former imperial summer 
residence  Favorita by Empress Maria Theresia in 1746 for the training 
of civil servants ( Knights´ Academies); at first employed 
Jesuits as teachers and, after the abolition of the order, Piarists 
and secular teachers; combined with the Savoyan Knights´ Academy 
in 1778, abolished by Joseph II in 1783, reopened in 1791 under 
the name Theresianisch-Leopoldinische Akademie, open to 
non-aristocrats from 1849. From 1918 solely a Gymnasium secondary 
school (from 1925 a Realgymnasium secondary school) of the 
"Theresianische Akademie" foundation; in 1938 made into a  
National Political Institute of Education, which was dissolved in 
1945, reopened in 1957 as a public Gymnasium secondary school (with 
boarding facilities).

!Literature
Bibliographia Theresiana, in: Album der Theresianischen 
Akademie 1910-1938, 1978.


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