Fasori Gimnázium

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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: Budapesti Evangélikus Gimnázium, is a famous secondary school in Budapest, Hungary. It is located near the City Park.

It has been one of the best secondary schools in Hungary. Among its students were the following:

Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize winner physicist and mathematician)
John Harsanyi (Nobel Prize winner economist)
John von Neumann (mathematician and polymath)
György Faludy (poet)
Emmerich Kalman (composer)
Kálmán Kandó (inventor) – for five years
Sándor Petőfi (poet) – for two years

Among the further students and teachers were Georg Lukács, Theodor Herzl, Antal Doráti, Alfréd Haar, Miksa Fenyő, Gyula Szepesy, Adolf Fényes, Miksa Falk, Aurél Stein and Vilmos Tátrai.

László Rátz was a legendary teacher of mathematics in the school, after whom a Medal and an Achievement Award was later named.

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 ("Avenue to the City Park") in 1904, receiving its present nickname. It had to cease working in 1952 (during Communism), but it was re-opened in 1989.