Kuopio Lyceum High School

Notable alumni

• Former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.
• Former Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen
• The first professional Finnish writer Juhani Aho
• Film director and comedian Spede Pasanen
• Journalist Lasse Lehtinen, Member of European Parliament.
• August Ahlqvist, poet, critic, linguist and professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki; strongest critic of the Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi and his novel Seven Brothers
• Finnish Chancellor of Justice, Eliel Soisalon-Soininen
• Bishop of Kuopio diocese, Wille Riekkinen

  History

• Viipurin triviaalikoulu, established in 1534, was relocated to Kuopio in 1777.
• In 1788, as the relocation seemed to become permanent, the school was replaced by Kuopion triviaalikoulu.
• In 1843 the Finnish education system was restructured and the Kuopio's trivium school became initially Kuopion Yläalkeiskoulu and a year later in 1844 it was established as Kuopion Lukio. The first principal of Kuopion Yläalkeiskoulu was Johan Vilhelm Snellman, one of the most influential 19th-century Finnish statesmen and philosophers.
• Kuopion Lyseo was established in 1872 by merging these two schools, Kuopion Yläalkeiskoulu and Kuopion Lukio. Finnish was established as the teaching language.
• In 1975 Kuopion Lyseo was again divited to two different schools: Kauppatorin yläaste, later Vuorilammen yläaste, which is equivalent to junior high school and Kuopion Lyseon Lukio which is equivalent to senior high school.
• In 1994 Kuopion Lyseon Lukio started also International Baccalaureate school in addition to the regular Finnish lukio senior high school. The teaching language in the IB school is English.