Collegium Nobilium (Warsaw)

The Collegium Nobilium (English: College for Nobles) or Collegium Novum (English: The New College) was an elite boarding school for the sons of Polish magnates and wealthy nobles (szlachta), founded in 1740 in Warsaw by the Piarist intellectual, Stanisław Konarski, and run by his religious brethren. Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw was the finest, model institution of Piarist education in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the highly qualified teaching staff and serving as an elite educational establishment. Piarist schools for nobles modeled after it were later founded in Lviv and Vilnius.

Initially, it existed at the older Piarist school, founded in 1657 and called the Collegium Regium, housed in a monumental building on Miodowa Street. In 1807, when the building was occupied by the military, the school was relocated outside the city to the Piarist grounds in Żoliborz, from which time it became known as the Żoliborz Boarding School (Polish: Konwikt Żoliborski).

It is often confused with another college foundation in Warsaw of the same name, only founded by the Jesuits in 1752 and serving the same demographic. That one was forced to close as a result of the suppression of the Society of Jesus in Western Europe in 1777.