Collège Saint-Michel

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

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)

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)
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
Father Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1835–1842), founder of Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Ernst Wilczek (1862–1948), botanist