Helvetic College

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the college of the same name in Zurich, see Collegium Helveticum .

Helvetic College ( Collegium Helveticum ) was the name of a seminar in Milan for the formation of Catholic clergy for Switzerland , the Cardinal - Archbishop Karl Count Borromeo of Milan in 1579 founded has, during its 200 years of existence for fixing the Catholicism , and especially the Jesuit influence in the Catholic Swiss cantons contributed a lot.

A well-known student of the Collegium Helveticum was the archpriest Nicolò Rusca , who was tortured to death in Thusis in 1618 .

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The institution was closed during the revolution towards the end of the previous century and was under the domestic direction of the congregation Oblates of Charles and St. Ambrose .

Research institute of the ETH

Today the term describes an interdisciplinary research institute founded in 1997 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , which is housed in the premises of the former Swiss Federal Observatory .

See also

• Collegium Helveticum

Web links

• Hans Stadler: Collegium Helveticum. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Today's college at ETH