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Karlovci Gymnasium

Sremski Karlovci, Syrmia · Serbia

The oldest Serbian gymnasium, founded in 1791 as the “Gymnasium of the Serbs” on the initiative of Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović and with a large donation from the merchant Dimitrije Anastasijević Sabov. Teaching was at first in Latin, and the subjects included German, history, geography, natural sciences, physics and logic. The present building was erected in 1891 to the design of the Hungarian architect Gyula Pártos. The school, today a philological gymnasium, keeps Volny’s herbarium from the late 18th century, the oldest herbarium collection in the Balkans.