title: Collège Saint-Michel
text: # 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
  