Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše



Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše (historically known as the 1st Czech Gymnasium of Brno; commonly known as Jaroška ) is a public gymnasium in Brno, Czech Republic.

History
Founded in 1867 as Slovanské gymnázium, the school is the oldest Czech-language gymnasium in Moravia, alongside the gymnasium in Olomouc. The school was originally located in a building on Na Hradbách street (now Rooseveltova 13), moving to its current premises in a neo-renaissance building at třída Kapitána Jaroše 14 on 18 September 1884.

In 1984 the school was designated as a specialized mathematics academy. Between the years 1992 and 2002, 30 of the 66 representatives of the Czech Republic in the International Mathematical Olympiad were students of the school.

Notable alumni
Notable former staff and students at the school include:

Staff

 * František Bartoš (1837–1906), linguist and ethnographer, taught at the school in 1869–1888.
 * Vladimír Šťastný (1841–1910), priest and poet, taught theology at the school in 1867–1900.
 * František Koláček (1851–1913), physicist, taught at the school in 1873–1891

Students

 * Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), artist
 * Vilém Mrštík (1863–1912), writer
 * Petr Bezruč (1867–1958), poet and short story writer
 * Karel Absolon (1877–1960), archaeologist and speleologist
 * Karel Čapek (1890–1938), author and journalist
 * Lev Blatný (1894–1930), poet
 * Ondřej Sekora (1899–1967), painter and author
 * Růžena Vacková (1901–1982), art historian
 * Ivan Blatný (1919–1990), poet
 * Zdeněk Rotrekl (1920–2013), poet
 * Felix Maria Davídek (1921–1988), Roman Catholic bishop
 * Jan Novák (1921–1984), composer
 * Josef Koukl (1926–2010), Roman Catholic Bishop of Litoměřice
 * Milan Kundera (born 1929), novelist
 * Jiří Zlatuška (born 1957), politician
 * Petr Fiala (born 1964), politician, prime minister of the Czech Republic
 * Petr Zelenka (born 1967), film director
 * Pavel Blatný (born 1968), chess grandmaster
 * Jaroslav Suchý (born 1971), figure skater and politician
 * Kateřina Mrázová (born 1972), figure skater
 * Martin Špinar (born 1972), footballer
 * Radka Kovarikova (born 1975), figure skater
 * Danuše Nerudová (born 1979), economist and politician
 * Kateřina Tučková (born 1980), writer
 * Jakub Hrůša (born 1981), conductor
 * Mario Holek (born 1986), footballer