| Collège Saint-Michel | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
Switzerland  | |
| Coordinates | 46°48′26″N 7°09′28″E / 46.80725°N 7.1577°E | 
| Information | |
| Established | 1582 | 
| Website | csmfr | 
Collège Saint-Michel (German: Kollegium St. Michael) is a Gymnasium school located in Fribourg, Switzerland. It was established in 1582 by the Jesuit order as a boys' school.[1]
Personalities
Rectors
- Pierre Michel (1582–1888)
 - Jean-Baptiste Jaccoud (1888–1924)
 - Hubert Savoy (1924–1939)
 - Romain Pittet (1939–1952)
 - Mgr Edouard Cantin (1952–1971)
 - Abbé André Bise (1971–1983)
 - Michel Corpataux (1983–1989)
 - Jean Baeriswyl (1989–1996)
 - Nicolas Renevey (1996–2004)
 - Jacques de Coulon (2004–2008)
 - Matthias Wider (since 2008)
 
Notable teachers
- Jean-Pierre Dorand
 - Fabrice Hadjadj
 - Félicien Morel
 - Claude Schorderet
 - Denis Clerc
 - Michel Bugnon-Mordant
 
Notable alumni
- Erich von Däniken, ancient astronaut theorist
 - Patrick Aebischer (1954– ), president of the EPFL
 - Abbé Joseph Bovet (1879–1951), composer
 - Dominique de Buman (1956– ), national councilor
 - Jacques Chessex (1934–2009), writer
 - Michel Dénériaz (1928–1999), radio host and game show
 - Joseph Deiss (1946– ), former federal councilor
 - Antoine Dousse (1924–2006), bookseller, teacher and writer
 - Claude Frochaux (1935), writer, publisher
 - Emile Gardaz (1931–2007), poet and writer
 - Félix Glutz, vaudois politician
 - François Gross (1931–2015), journalist
 - Pierre Hemmer (1950–2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland
 - Armin Jordan (1932–2006) orchestra conductor
 - Cardinal Charles Journet (1891–1974)
 - Anthony Kohlmann (1771–1836), Jesuit educator
 - Mgr Pierre Mamie (1920–2008), bishop
 - Jules Marmier (1874–1975), Swiss composer, cellist, organist and choirmaster
 - Georges Python, conseiller d'État, principal founder in 1891 of the University of Fribourg
 - Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon (1817–1854), adventurer, conqueror of the desert of Sonora (Mexico)
 - Count Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970), historian and writer
 - Léon Savary (1895–1968), writer and journalist
 - Peter Scholl-Latour (1924–2014), journalist
 - Vladimir Serbinenko, Switzerland's first gold medallist at the International Mathematical Olympiad
 - Father Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1835–1842), founder of Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
 - Ernst Wilczek (1862–1948), botanist
 
See also
References
- ↑ "University of Fribourg Ranking and Address". University Review. 10 April 2012.
 
External links
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