Karlsschule Stuttgart

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Hohe Karlsschule (Carl's High School) was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart.

Politically the duke was quiet unimportant and with this school he wanted to enhance his prestige. In 1770, it was moved to Castle Solitude, and in 1775 into the city. The building, situated behind Neues Schloss, was destroyed in WW2. Raised in 1781 by Emperor Joseph II to university named Karls Hohe Schule, it was disbanded after the death of Herzog Carl Eugen by his brother Ludwig Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in 1794.

Friedrich Schiller was one of its alumnis.^[1]

Others were Johann Heinrich Dannecker, Joseph Anton Koch, Johann Georg Kerner, Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth, Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, Ludwig Abeille, Johann Gottlieb Sämann, Christian Zais, Adam Albert Graf von Neipperg, Gottlieb Schick, Georges Cuvier, Johann Christoph Friedrich Haug, Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret, Johann Friedrich LeBret, Karl Wilhelm Marschall von Bieberstein, Ernst Franz Ludwig Marschall von Bieberstein, Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Friedrich Fürst von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer.