The University of Fribourg
The
University of Fribourg, established in 1889, is at the same time a State
University and a Catholic University. Its international character
reflects the situation in Fribourg, on the border between the French and
Germanic cultures.
Starting with two faculties, Law and Letters, a faculty of theology was
established in 1890, and a faculty of sciences in 1896.
The theology faculty, entrusted to the Dominicans, was inaugurated in a climate of intellectual renewal and a return to Saint Thomas Aquinas, under the influence of Pope Leo XIII.