Miina Härma Gymnasium
| Miina Härma Gymnasium Miina Härma Gümnaasium |
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Jaan Tõnissoni 3 Tartu, Tartu County, 50409 Estonia |
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| Coordinates | 58°22′36″N 26°42′32″E / 58.37667°N 26.70889°ECoordinates: 58°22′36″N 26°42′32″E / 58.37667°N 26.70889°E |
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| School type | State-funded, secondary school |
| Established | 1906 |
| Founder | ENKS |
| Status | Open |
| Director | Ene Tannberg |
| Grades | 1-12 |
| Language | Estonian, English |
| Newspaper | Tabula Rasa |
| Website | mhg |
Miina Härma Gymnasium (Estonian: Miina Härma Gümnaasium; abbreviated as MHG) is an institution composed of a primary school and a secondary school in Tartu, Estonia. The school holds a special emphasis on languages. Miina Härma Gymnasium is an IB World School offering the Diploma Programme and the Primary Years Programme, and a candidate school for the Middle Years Programme.
After the Estonian national awakening had ended the Estonian people were still left under the supremacy of german language and culture. This meant that the upper class mostly spoke German. The first generation of Estonian intellectuals, who were mostly men, did not stop using Estonian language but they married German women. This meant that the domestic language was usually German, which lead to their offsprings preferring it to Estonian.
At the beginning of the 20th century Estonian intellectuals such as Jakob Hurt, Oskar Kallas, Jaan Tõnisson and many others decided to tackle the problem by founding a secondary school for girls. In order to obtain a permission to do that an association had to be started. This association was established in the year 1906 and was the Estonian Youth Education Association (Estonian: Eesti Noorsoo Kasvatuse Selts; abbreviated as ENKS). The opening ceremony of the school was held on 1 September 1906 by the Julian calendar and it was named Estonian Youth Education Association’s secondary school for girls. Its first director was Oskar Kallas.
Despite having the plan to build its own school house from the start Miina Härma Gymnasium spent its early years moving from place to place. It was caused by the unanticipated costs of building a suitable school house and political conflicts. A contest was run in Finland to design a suitable building for the school, but the winning design turned out to be too costly. Thus, it was adjusted by the engineers Aleksander Raudsepp and Fromhold Kangro to fit the budget of financiers.
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