Knight academy
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Knight academies were developed by the German aristocracy in the late seventeenth century to facilitate the ascent of Prussia as a European power. They prepared aristocratic youth for state and military service. It added to the hitherto rudimentary education of the German aristocracy natural science, statesmanship and languages. Latter many converted to humanistic high schools.
[edit] knight academies
- Brandenburg
- Liegnitz
- Attain
- Lüneburg
- Dresden
- Wolfenbüttel