Charles-Aloyse Fontaine

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Charles-Aloyse Fontaine or Johann Karl Anton Aloys Fontaine (born June 14, 1754 in Freiburg im Üechtland , FR ; † May 5, 1834 ibid) was a Swiss Jesuit .

Live and act

Fontaine was a son of Jean-Baptiste Fontaine and his wife Marie-Barbe Girard Murat. The Franciscan Jean Baptiste Girard was his maternal cousin.

At the age of fifteen, Fontaine went to Landsberg am Lech in 1769 and entered the Jesuit order there. He spent his novitiate there and began to study at the University of Ingolstadt . When Pope Clement XIV repealed the Jesuit order in 1773 , Fontaine went back to Switzerland. After completing his studies, he was ordained a priest around 1777 .

Between 1773 and 1779 Fontaine taught at the College of St. Michael (Freiburg). Subsequently, Fontaine went to France and in 1781 returned to Freiburg, where he was appointed Canon of St. Michael .

There Fontaine campaigned for the reforms that had long been necessary in the schools, but after the end of the Helvetic Republic , he found less and less attention. As a reformer he was in contact with many educators; he was u. a. friends with Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg , Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Philipp Albert Stapfer and Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg and had a lively correspondence with them. He also supported the educational ideas of his cousin Jean-Baptiste.

In the course of his life, Fontaine brought together a considerable collection of minerals and plants that he donated to the newly opened college of his order in Freiburg. This collection became the basis of the Natural History Museum . Another collection of Fontaines, coins and miniature portraits, can be seen today in the Museum of Art and History there.

Charles-Aloyse Fontaine died on May 5, 1834 in Freiburg, where he found his final resting place.

Fonts (selection)

  • Collection diplomatique . (24 vols.)
  • Comptes des trésoriers . (34 vols.)

literature

  • Ferdinand Strobel : Swiss Jesuit Lexicon . Zurich 1986, p. 187.
  • Jean-Piere Uldry: Charles-Aloyse Fontaine . In: Raoul Blanchard (Ed.): Friborg 1798. Une révolution culturelle? Musée d'Art et d'histoire, Friborg 1998, OCLC 718024782 (also catalog of the exhibition of the same name, 25 September to 29 November 1998).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Is considered to be the forerunner of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .
personal data
SURNAME Fontaine, Charles-Aloyse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fontaine, Johann Karl Anton Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1834
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland