Tank Upper Secondary School

Inscription on the wall entrance of Hans Tank Upper Secondary School, 1855.
Hans Tank School

60°23′39″N 5°19′44″E / 60.3941°N 5.3289°E / 60.3941; 5.3289 Tank Upper Secondary School (Norwegian: Tanks videregående skole) was an upper secondary school in the centre of Bergen, Norway.

The school opened in 1850 as Tank School (Den Tankske Skole), funded by an endowment established by merchant Hans Tank and his wife around fifty years earlier.[1][2] The school closed in 2014 after it was merged with Bergen Handelsgymnasium and Bjørgvin upper secondary school into the new Amalie Skram upper secondary school.[3]

  1. ^ Skreien, Norvall. "Hans Tank". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Historien vår". Tanks videregående skole. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Legger ned BHG". Bergensavisen. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2021.