Collège Saint-Michel
Collège Saint-Michel is a Gymnasium school located in Fribourg, Switzerland. It was established in 1582 by the Jesuit order as a boys' school.Personalities
Rectors
- Pierre Michel
- Jean-Baptiste Jaccoud
- Hubert Savoy
- Romain Pittet
- Mgr Edouard Cantin
- Abbé André Bise
- Michel Corpataux
- Jean Baeriswyl
- Nicolas Renevey
- Jacques de Coulon
- Matthias Wider
Notable teachers
- Jean-Pierre Dorand
- Fabrice Hadjadj
- Félicien Morel
- Claude Schorderet
- Denis Clerc
- Michel Bugnon-Mordant
Famous former students
- Patrick Aebischer, president of the EPFL
- Abbé Joseph Bovet, composer
- Dominique de Buman, national councilor
- Jacques Chessex, writer
- Michel Dénériaz, radio host and game show
- Joseph Deiss, former federal councilor
- Antoine Dousse, bookseller, teacher and writer
- Claude Frochaux, writer, publisher
- Emile Gardaz, poet and writer
- Félix Glutz, vaudois politician
- François Gross, journalist
- Pierre Hemmer, one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland
- Armin Jordan orchestra conductor
- Cardinal Charles Journet
- Mgr Pierre Mamie, bishop
- Jules Marmier, Swiss composer, cellist, organist and choirmaster
- Georges Python, conseiller d'État, principal founder in 1891 of the University of Fribourg
- Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon, adventurer, conqueror of the desert of Sonora
- Count Gonzague de Reynold, historian and writer
- Léon Savary, writer and journalist
- Peter Scholl-Latour, journalist
- Father Joseph-Marie Timon-David, founder of Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Ernst Wilczek, botanist
- Vladimir Serbinenko, Switzerland's first gold medallist at the International Mathematical Olympiad
