Coordinates: 34°36′40″S 58°22′26″W / 34.611°S 58.374°W
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| Established | 1863 |
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| Type | Public secondary |
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| Affiliation | University of Buenos Aires |
| Rector | Virginia González Gass |
| Founder | Bartolomé Mitre |
| Students | 2017 [1] |
| Location | Bolívar 263, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Colours | Blue and white |
| Athletics | Soccer, field hockey, swimming, handball, track and field, basketball, gymnastics, judo, rugby, volleyball |
| Former names | Colegio Grande de San Carlos, Real Colegio de San Carlos, Real Convictorio Carolino, Colegio Nacional |
| Notable alumni | Bernardo Houssay, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, José Luis Murature, Lalo Schiffrin, Mario Firmenich |
| Website | http://www.cnba.uba.ar |
The Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires is a public high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the tradition of the European gymnasium it provides a free, rigorous, multi-disciplinary education that includes classical languages such as Latin and Greek. The school is one of the most prestigious in Argentina. Many well known personalities, including two Nobel laureates, four Presidents of Argentina and a four-time Grammy awardee and six-time Oscar nominee have studied there.
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History
Its origins date to 1661, when it was known as Colegio Grande de San Carlos, when the colonial government entrusted the Jesuit Order with the education of the youth. After the Papal suppression of the Jesuits from Spanish Empire-controlled South America in 1767, the institution languished until 1772, when governor Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo reopened the school as the Real Colegio de San Carlos. Vértiz, already appointed Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, renamed the school Real Convictorio Carolino in 1783, a name that endured until 1806. Thereafter, the school changed of name and program several times.[2]
President Bartolomé Mitre redesignated the institution as the Colegio Nacional in 1863, and since 1911 the school has been administered by the University of Buenos Aires. Originally only for men, the school has admitted women as students since 1957.[2]
Nowadays, students from the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires rank among the best in most science olympiads, such as the IPhO, IChO and IBO.[2]
Alumni
Alumni include many of Argentina's founding fathers, Presidents, members of political parties of all ideologies, internationally recognized scientists, artists and ideologists, and two Nobel laureates. A partial list includes:
- Luis Agote - Devised the first effective method of blood transfusion
- Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear - President of Argentina, 1922-1928
- Manuel Belgrano - Leader in the Argentine War of Independence, creator of the national flag
- Fabián Bielinsky - Award-winning Argentine cinema director
- Miguel Cané - Writer, diplomat and lawmaker
- Martín Caparrós - Journalist, Writer.
- Juan Bautista Egusquiza - President of Paraguay, 1894-1898
- Bernardo Houssay - Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1947
- Agustin P. Justo - President of Argentina, 1932-1938
- Salvador Mazza - Epidemiologist who helped control Chagas disease locally
- Father Carlos Mugica - Activist priest, assassinated in 1974
- José Luis Murature - Foreign Minister of Argentina, 1914-1916
- Carlos Pellegrini - President of Argentina, 1890-1892
- Ignacio Pirovano - Noted surgeon, performed first local laparotomy
- Nicolás Repetto - Co-founder of the Socialist Party of Argentina and Cooperative movement leader
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas - Nobel laureate
- Roque Sáenz Peña - President of Argentina, 1910-1914
- Lalo Schiffrin - Composer and pianist, born Boris Claudio Schifrin, Grammy-award winner and Academy award nominee
Facilities
The school offers a wide variety of activities and resources for the students, including a fully-equipped astronomy observatory, a swimming pool, a cinema, a sports campus with football, rugby, handball, volleyball and basketball courts. Many free classes are available such as astronomy, photography, languages, sailing, and martial arts. The sailing team is especially important, as it has won most of the local competitions.
Enrollment
Admission is a highly competitive process involving multiple exams after a year-long course. Every year 1,200 candidates intend to enter the school but only around 400 gain admission. Currently there are about 2,000 students, who pay no fees since the school is public and therefore free.
Building
Designed by French architect Norbert Maillart and opened in 1906, some of the most recognizable features of the French neo-classical building include the two symmetric white marble main staircases, the water fountain in one of the courtyards, the ornately-decorated assembly hall and its organ; and the Colonial-era tunnels that are accessible from the basement, notably from a hidden entrance behind the projection-screen area in the film auditorium.
See also
References
- ^ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Censo de Estudiantes Secundarios 2004
- ^ a b c "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). University of Buenos Aires. http://www.uba.ar/academicos/contenidos.php?idm=59#CNBA. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
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