Collège Saint-Michel
# 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.

## 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
