Christoph
Scheiner was born on July 25th in 1573 in Wald near Mindelheim in Schwaben or Swabia, a region in the southwest of Munich. He is probably the most famous astronomer ever working in
From 1610
to 1616 he was a professor of mathematics at the
His
scientific works dealing with questions of astronomy and optics, e.g. the
sunspots and the human eye, were highly esteemed by experts.
Assisted by
Johann Baptist Cysat he discovered the sunspots in March 1611. He described his
observations in three letters he sent to Marcus Welser in
Many
astronomic observations like the calculating the rotation of the sun time or
the aptitudes of the sun’s rotation axis against the ecliptic are due to Christoph Scheiner.
He built an
astronomic telescope on his own, invented the Pantograph (a machine that makes it possible to
copy things exactly by hand) and constructed apparatuses like the Helioskop ( a telescope that makes the sun look a bit darker, in order to protect your eyes) and
the Helitrop.
His main
work about the sunspots was edited in 1630: »Rosa Ursina sive sol ex admirando
facularum suarum phaenomeno varius nec non circa centrum suum et axem fixum ab
ortu in occasum conversione quasi menstrua super polos proprios mobilis«
(Bracciano)."
On July 18th
in 1650 he died in
School
and building
The school was
founded as a vocational school in 1858. It was in a different building then and
there were only 34 students.
19 years later it
became the “
In 1903 a
commercial school was included and only three years after that the number of
pupils increased to 234 so that a bigger building had to be planned. This
building was finished in 1912 when the first school year started, with about 326 pupils
in today’s school building. The first girls came in 1920 and even though
there were just 10 of them that year meant a great success for female emancipation.
In 1923 the school
became a grammar school.
In 1940 there were
the first dead students because of the Second World War. The principal, 15
teachers and the janitor were engaged in military services. The school then was
called “Higher Secondary Modern School For Boys”.
Four years later,
when World War II demanded the deaths of thousands of people and hundreds of
pupils in the Ingolstadt area, the school was moved to St. Anton School in a
different part of the city. That was because the school building was needed as
a military hospital.
1945 was the first
school year after the war. The school was again located in its own building and
it was celebrating the end of the war. There were 744 pupils, but no girls. In
the following year the school got back its old name and was again a grammar school
open for girls and boys.
Continually
increasing numbers of students led to the first extension of the main building in 1956.
In 1965 the school
got the name it still has today: Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium.
With ever increasing
numbers of pupils attending the school there was the decision to start another
extension in 2002. Construction began in the summer of 2003 to be finished by the end
of the school year 2004-2005.