school was internationally known as a pioneer in education and was visited by many pedagogues and intellectuals including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christoph Martin Wieland. The husband of Queen Victoria, Albert, Prince Consort, was frequently sent there as a boy to play with the students. Teachers and alumni Some of the people who have taught or studied there include Christian Carl Andre, leading 19th century European naturalist and pioneer of the biological concept of heredity whose vision paved the way for the research of Gregor Mendel, the founder of modern genetics Hans Domizlaff, the only disciple of the artist Max Klinger; Germany's first guru on advertising and public branding; instrumental in helping Carl Friedrich von Siemens establish Siemens as a mass market consumer brand in the 1930s Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, founder of modern gymnastics whose ideas were adopted by schools and universities throughout Britain and the United States in the 19th century Edward C. Hegeler, wealthy German-American industrialist and philanthropist; founded The Monist, one of America's oldest and most important journals on philosophy Christian Paulsen, law professor, politician and Danish nationalist Carl Ritter, founder of scientific geography; co-founder of the Geographic Society of Berlin; mentored explorers such as America geographer and Princeton professor Arnold Guyot, China explorer Ferdinand von Richthofen, and Africa explorer Heinrich Barth Ferdinand Springer, businessman who inherited a four-employee firm and with his father Julius Springer built it into the world's largest publisher of science, technology and medicine journals; Springer Science + Business was acquired by BC Partners in 2013 for €3.3 billion. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor-manager, was educated at the school See also Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte Schwäbisch Gmünd, in Baden-Württemberg Internatsschule Schloss Hansenberg, in Hesse Landesschule Pforta, in Saxony-Anhalt Landesgymnasium St. Afra, in Saxony References External links Website of the Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal Boarding schools in Germany Co-educational boarding schools Education in Thuringia Educational institutions established in 1784 1784 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire