Events Tagged: "academy"

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai escapes Jerusalem in coffin - Establishes academy at Yavneh, saves Judaism from destruction

Rav establishes Sura academy in Babylon - Returns from Palestine, creates major center of Jewish learning

Alcuin creates palace academy - gives classical nicknames: Charlemagne is 'David', himself 'Flaccus' (Horace)

Cosimo founds Platonic Academy in Florence - Marsilio Ficino leads revival of Platonism in West

Prussian War Academy (Kriegsakademie) founded in Berlin - creates professional general staff officer corps with scientific military education