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25-824: Educated at the University of Fribourg , Metzler served as the cantonal executive in charge of finance in Appenzell Innerrhoden from 1996 to 1999. She was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 11 March 1999, as a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party . Metzler took office at the Federal Department of Justice and Police the following 1 May, succeeding Arnold Koller ; she won 14 referendums during her time in office. On 1 January 2003, she assumed

50-586: A shield of black and white, representing the canton of Fribourg. The logo of the university is a blue stylized "F" (with triangles echoing the facade structure of the Miséricorde Building and symbolizing the Alps) and the name of the university in Latin. University of Z%C3%BCrich The University of Zurich ( UZH , German : Universität Zürich ) is a public research university located in

75-590: Is a public university located in Fribourg , Switzerland . The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius founded the Collège Saint-Michel in the City of Fribourg . In 1763, an academy of law was founded by the state of Fribourg which formed the nucleus of the present law faculty. The University of Fribourg was finally created in 1889 by an Act of

100-710: Is increasing in many faculties. The only bachelors program taught entirely in English is the " English Language and Literature " program. All Master courses at the Faculty of Science are held in English. Master courses in Economics and Finance are mainly held in English, while the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance is held completely in English. The university's Academic Sports Association (ASVZ) offers

125-521: Is now the only French/German bilingual university in the world (45% French and 55% German). The town itself is 70% French and 30% German. This fact, coupled with the traditional dominance of French as the language of the city aristocracy explains why French has remained so dominant in university administration and in the AGEF (Association Générale des Etudiants Fribourgois), the Student's Union. To commemorate

150-542: Is reminiscent of the roman name for the precursor settlement of the city of Zurich, Turicum . In the university's early years, the 1839 appointment of the German theologian David Friedrich Strauss to its Chair of Theology caused a major controversy, since Strauss argued that the miracles in the Christian New Testament were mythical retellings of normal events as supernatural happenings. Eventually,

175-562: The elections for the Federal Council on 10 December, the Federal Assembly did not reelect Metzler and elected Christoph Blocher instead, by 121 votes to 116 on the third round of voting. She challenged her CVP colleague Joseph Deiss for his seat, but lost by 138 to 96. Metzler kept her seat until the end of the year and Christoph Blocher succeeded her on 1 January 2004. She published the memories of those years under

200-573: The 2009–2010 academic year a new postgraduate law programme, the Master of Laws in Cross-Cultural Business Practice (MLCBP), an LL.M taught entirely in English. Fribourg has no central campus and its buildings are located throughout the city. The main sites are: The Fribourg University is divided into five faculties: The university seal depicts a cross and bishop's ring representing the university's Catholic ethos on

225-651: The BeNeFri association comprising the Universities of Berne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg, students at any one of these universities may take courses at another in the association and still receive credit at their home institution. The academic degrees were the Demi-Licence, Licence, DEA / DESS, Doctorate . The university now follows the requirements of the Bologna process . The University of Fribourg launched for

250-1016: The Museum of Veterinary History, the Zurich Herbaria, the Museum of Anthropology , the Botanical Garden , the Ethnographic Museum, the Paleontological Museum, the Veterinary Anatomy Collection and the Zoological Museum. In the fields of bioscience and finance, there is a close-knit collaboration between the University of Zurich and the ETH (Federal Institute for Technology). Examples for common initiatives between

275-490: The authorities offered Strauss a pension before he had a chance to start his duties. The university allowed women to attend philosophy lectures from 1847. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was added in 1901, the second-oldest such faculty in the world. In 1914, the university moved to new premises designed by the architect Karl Moser on Rämistrasse 71. The university admitted a Russian woman student, Maria Kniazhnina, to audit medicine classes in 1864, but she did not complete

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300-570: The centenary of the university, La Poste issued a stamp depicting the figures Science and Sagesse. In 2005, the university inaugurated its Perolles 2 campus, to which the Faculty of Economics and Social Science relocated. The university has the third largest collection of Biblical antiquities in the world after the British Museum and the Cairo Museum. Fribourg has also developed FriMat, a centre of excellence in nanotechnology. As part of

325-629: The city centre, Irchelpark and Oerlikon. Members of the university can use several libraries, including the ETH -library, and the Zurich Central Library , with over 5 million volumes. In 1962, the faculty of science proposed to establish the Irchelpark campus on the Strickhofareal . The first stage the construction of the university buildings was begun in 1973, and the campus was inaugurated in 1979. The construction of

350-531: The city of Zurich , Switzerland . It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology , law , medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy . Currently, the university has seven faculties: Philosophy , Human Medicine , Economic Sciences , Law , Mathematics and Natural Sciences , Theology and Veterinary Medicine . The university offers

375-473: The course. Another Russian student, Nadezhda Suslova , audited medicine classes from 1865 and was allowed to become a registered student and graduate as a doctor of medicine in 1867. The first seven women who were awarded medical degrees at the university were known as the Zurich Seven. Including Suslova, they were: The university is scattered all over the city of Zurich. The main campuses are located in

400-527: The name College St. Michel. During the Second World War, the university set up "university camps" along with the University of Zürich , Handels-Hochschule in St. Gallen and a Lycée camp at Wetzikon provided a wide variety of courses to educate Polish prisoners of war. The Perolles campus was constructed on the site of a former wagon factory. Although many lectures were originally in Latin, Fribourg

425-464: The parliament of the Swiss Canton of Fribourg . The University of Fribourg is Switzerland's only bilingual university and offers full curricula in both French and German, two of Switzerland's national languages. Students number about 10,000; there are about 200 tenured professors and 700 other academic teaching and research personnel. The Misericorde Campus, constructed between 1939 and 1942,

450-765: The second stage lasted from 1978 to 1983. The campus also houses the anthropological museum Anthropologisches Museum , and the cantonal Staatsarchiv Zürich . The Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine is part of the university. The university includes 13 museums: the Anatomical Collection, the Archaeological Collection, the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Wax Moulages, the Science Exploratorium,

475-545: The title "Grissini & Alpenbitter", 2004, ISBN   3-85882-388-0 . She taught between February and July 2004 at the University of St. Gallen a class called "Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten in der Politik" which can be translated as "scope for design in politics". Since April 2005 she has been working for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis . University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg ( French : Université de Fribourg ; German : Universität Freiburg )

500-739: The two institutions include University Medicine Zurich, the Wyss Translational Center Zurich and Life Science Zurich. The university's Department of Economics is especially strong and was ranked first in the German-speaking area by the Handelsblatt in 2017. In 2009, the faculty of Business Administration was ranked third in the German-speaking area. Bachelor courses are taught in Swiss Standard German ("Hochdeutsch"), but use of English

525-429: The upper house of the Swiss parliament) became Director of Public Education. He raised funds through a lottery and was granted some 2,500,000 CHF by the canton. The cantonal library became integrated with that of the university and the academy became the Faculty of Law. In 1939, the university moved to a new campus constructed on the former cemetery of Misericorde, ceding St. Michel to one of Fribourg's gymnasia, which took

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550-605: The vice presidency of the Swiss Confederation. On 10 December 2003, she became the third Federal Councillor not to be reelected in the history of the Swiss Federal State. In the 2003 Federal Assembly election , her party lost many voters and the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) became the largest party of Switzerland. The Swiss People's Party then requested another seat in the Federal Council. In

575-525: The widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution. The University of Zurich was founded on April 29, 1833, when the existing colleges of theology, the Carolinum founded by Huldrych Zwingli in 1525, law and medicine were merged with a new faculty of Philosophy. It was the first university in Europe to be founded by the state rather than a monarch or church. Its latin name

600-512: Was designed by the architects Honegger and Dumas, students of Swiss architect Le Corbusier . There are five faculties : Catholic theology , law , natural sciences , humanities , and economics & social sciences . The university owes its earliest origin to the foundation of the Jesuit College St. Michel on Belze Hill by Peter Canisius in 1580 at the invitation of the government of Fribourg. In 1763, an Academy of Law

625-596: Was founded, housed in the Albertinium (now a Dominican residence). In 1834, the cantonal library was formed from works brought to Fribourg (from Catholic monasteries) for safekeeping. The College St. Michel was closed following the expulsion of the Jesuits from Fribourg after the canton's defeat in the Sonderbund war. In 1886, Georges Python, founder of the cantonal bank and State Counsellor for Fribourg (M.P. in

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