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The University of Fribourg (Université de Fribourg; Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland.^[1]

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Academic degree

An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.

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Adolphe Merkle Institute

The Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) is a research center in Fribourg, Switzerland focused on nanoscience.

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Albert Pintat

Albert Pintat Santolària (born 23 June 1943) is an Andorran citizen who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 27 May 2005 to 5 June 2009.

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Albert Ziegler (theologian)

Albert Ziegler (11 July 1927 – 4 August 2022) was a Swiss Roman-Catholic theologian, ethicist and author.

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Aloisius Joseph Muench

Aloisius Joseph Muench (February 18, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Andorra

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south.

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Angelo Scola

Angelo Scola (born 7 November 1941) is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church, philosopher and theologian.

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Anton Rohner

Joseph August Rohner commonly known as Anton Rohner (24 February 1871 - 4 November 1951) was a Swiss clergyman, professor, pastor, philosopher and member of the Dominican Order.

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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.

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Archbishop of Kraków

The archbishop of Kraków is the head of the archdiocese of Kraków.

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Archbishop of Westminster

The Archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, in England.

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Arnold Koller

Arnold Koller (born 29 August 1933) is a Swiss professor and politician.

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Arthur Dunkel

Arthur Dunkel (26 August 1932 – 8 June 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.

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Astrid Epiney

Astrid Epiney, born Wander (born 9 July 1965) is a German-Swiss jurist.

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AV Fryburgia

AV (Akademische Verbindung; academic society) Fryburgia is a fraternity or Studentenverbindung at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

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École Biblique

École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, commonly known as École Biblique, is a French academic establishment in Jerusalem specializing in archaeology and Biblical exegesis.

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Basil Hume

George Basil Hume (born George Haliburton Hume; 2 March 1923 – 17 June 1999) was an English Catholic bishop.

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Bernard Genoud (22 February 1942 – 21 September 2010) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from his appointment on 18 March 1999, until his death on 21 September 2010.

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Bible and Orient Museum

The Bible and Orient Museum, stylised BIBLE+ORIENT Museum and located in Fribourg, Switzerland, is the exhibition of a collection of ancient Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern miniature art, as well as a project to create a modern museum to compare biblical and extra-biblical texts with archaeological, epigraphical and iconographical data.

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Bill Press

William H. Press (born April 8, 1940) is an American talk radio host, podcaster, liberal pundit and author.

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Bologna Process

The Bologna Process is a series of ministerial meetings and agreements between European countries to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher-education qualifications.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canton of Fribourg

The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg (Canton de Fribourg; Kanton Freiburg; Canton de Fribôrg Chantun Friburg; Canton Friburgo) is located in western Switzerland.

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Cantonal and University Library of Fribourg

The Cantonal and University Library (German: Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek (KUB), French: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire (BCU), also known as the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg (BCUF)) is a cantonal and university library that located in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.

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Catholic theology

Catholic theology is the understanding of Catholic doctrine or teachings, and results from the studies of theologians.

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Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.

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Chancellor of Switzerland

The federal chancellor is the head of the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland, the oldest Swiss federal institution, established at the initiative of Napoleon in 1803.

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Chantal Martin Soelch

Chantal Martin Soelch is a Swiss clinical psychologist, academic, and author.

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Christoph Schönborn

Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Schönborn, O.P. (born 22 January 1945) is a Bohemian-born Austrian Dominican friar, theologian and philosopher, who is a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Clemens August Graf von Galen

Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Collège Saint-Michel

Collège Saint-Michel (German: Kollegium St. Michael) is a Gymnasium school located in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Compostela Group of Universities

The Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) is an international non-profit association that promotes and executes collaboration projects between institutions of higher education.

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Corina Casanova

Corina Casanova (born 4 January 1956) is a Swiss politician who was the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2008 and 2015.

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Critical systems thinking

Critical systems thinking (CST) is a systems approach designed to aid decision-makers, and other stakeholders, improve complex problem situations that cross departmental and, often, organizational boundaries.

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Csaba Szabo (pharmacologist)

Csaba Szabo, a physician and pharmacologist, is the Head of the Pharmacology Section of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

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Daniel Vasella

Daniel Lucius Vasella (born 15 August 1953) is a Swiss medical doctor, author, and executive who was CEO and chairman of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, the world's fifth largest drug company.

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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Education in Switzerland

The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons.

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Eleanor Purdie

Eleanor Purdie (10 January 1872 - 5 May 1929) was an English philologist and the first woman to obtain a doctorate from the University of Fribourg.

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Elijah Malok Aleng

Elijah Malok Aleng (28 November 1937 – 30 October 2014, Nairobi, Kenya) was a South Sudanese public servant, general, and politician, from in Jonglei State.

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Eliseo Verón

Eliseo Verón (June 12, 1935 – April 15, 2014) was an Argentine sociologist, anthropologist and semiotician, and professor of communication sciences at Universidad de San Andrés.

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Enrico Celio

Enrico Celio (19 June 1889 – 23 February 1980) was a Swiss lawyer, politician and journalist, a member of the Conservative Party, State Councilor and Federal Councilor.

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European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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Faculty (division)

A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate).

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Federal Council (Switzerland)

The Federal Council is the federal cabinet of the Swiss Confederation.

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Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (Bundesgericht, Tribunal fédéral, Tribunale federale, Tribunal federal) is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation and at the head of the Swiss judiciary.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.

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Flavio Cotti

Flavio Cotti (18 October 193916 December 2020) was a Swiss politician who served as member of the Federal Council from 1986 to 1999.

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Franciszek Macharski

Franciszek Macharski (20 May 1927 – 2 August 2016) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Fribourg

italics is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine.

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Gaspard Mermillod

Gaspard Mermillod (22 September 1824 – 23 February 1892) was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.

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Georges Cottier

Georges Marie Martin Cottier O.P., (25 April 1922 – 31 March 2016) was a Swiss prelate and theologian of the Catholic Church who served from 1990 to 2005 as theologian to Pope John Paul II as Theologian of the Pontifical Household after a career as a theologian and teacher.

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Gerard Batliner

Gerard Batliner (9 December 1928 – 25 June 2008) was an advocate and political figure from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1962 to 1970.

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Gianni Infantino

Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino (born 23 March 1970) is an Italian-Swiss football administrator and the president of FIFA since February 2016.

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Gilberto Agustoni

Gilberto Agustoni (26 July 1922 – 13 January 2017) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Giusep Nay

Giusep Nay (born 9 August 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the president of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for 2005 and 2006; he resigned in 2006.

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Giuseppe Lepori

Giuseppe Lepori (2 June 1902 – 6 September 1968) was a Swiss politician.

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Giuseppe Motta

Giuseppe Motta (29 December 1871 – 23 January 1940) was a Swiss politician.

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Gonzague de Reynold

Gonzague de Reynold (15 June 1880 – 9 April 1970) was a Swiss writer, historian, and right-wing political activist.

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Hans Hürlimann

Hans Hürlimann (6 April 1918 – 22 February 1994) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1974–1982).

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Henri Schwery

Henri Schwery (14 June 1932 – 7 January 2021) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Sion from 1977 to 1995.

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Henry Wansbrough

Henry Wansbrough (born Joseph Wansbrough, 1934) is an English biblical scholar, Catholic priest, and monk of Ampleforth Abbey.

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Hugo Obermaier

Hugo Obermaier (29 January 1877, in Regensburg – 12 November 1946, in Fribourg) was a distinguished Spanish-German prehistorian and anthropologist who taught at various European centres of learning.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans.

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Ignacy Mościcki

Ignacy Mościcki (1 December 18672 October 1946) was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939.

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Infante

Infante (f. infanta), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless of age, sometimes with the exception of the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the throne who usually bears a unique princely or ducal title.

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International Ice Hockey Federation

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey.

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Jean Zermatten

Jean Zermatten (born 2 March 1948 in Sion, Valais) is a specialist of children's rights.

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Jean-Marie Musy

Jean-Marie Musy (10 April 1876 – 19 April 1952) was a Swiss politician.

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Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor (born 10 April 1935, Cork City, Ireland – died 11 November 2013, Jerusalem) was an Irish Dominican priest, a leading authority on St. Paul, and a Professor of New Testament at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, a position that he held from 1967 until his death.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Joseph Bech

Joseph Bech (17 February 1887 – 8 March 1975)Thewes, Guy.

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Joseph Deiss

Joseph Deiss (born 18 January 1946) is a Swiss economist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006.

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Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014.

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Judith Schmutz

Judith Schmutz (born 1996) is a Swiss lawyer and politician who has served as president of the Cantonal Council of Lucerne since 2023.

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Juli Minoves

Juli Minoves i Triquell (born 15 August 1969) is an Andorran diplomat, author, and the 13th President of Liberal International.

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Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern

Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold (born 20 April 1952) is the eldest son of the late Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern and Princess Margarita of Leiningen.

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Kazys Pakštas

Kazys Pakštas (June 29, 1893 – September 11, 1960) was a Lithuanian political theorist and professor of geography, the pioneer of professional geography in Lithuania.

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Klaus Schwab

Klaus Martin Schwab (born 30 March 1938) is a German mechanical engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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Kurt Furgler

Kurt Furgler (24 June 1924 – 23 July 2008) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972–1986).

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Léon Savary

Léon Savary (Fleurier, 1895 – Boudry, 1968) was a Swiss French-speaking writer and journalist from Payerne, Vaud.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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Lionel Groulx

Lionel Groulx (13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, professor, public intellectual and Quebec nationalist.

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List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

The list of modern universities in Europe (1801–1940) contains all universities that were founded in Europe after the French Revolution and before the end of World War II.

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List of Spanish monarchs

This is a list of monarchs of Spain, a dominion started with the dynastic union of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.

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List of Swiss universities by enrollment

This is a list of Swiss universities and other higher education institutions according to the size of their student population recognized by the Federal Higher Education Act, HEdA.

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List of universities in Switzerland

This list of universities in Switzerland lists all public and private higher education institutions accredited and coordinated according the Federal Act on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss Higher Education Sector (short: Federal Higher Education Act, HEdA).

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Lists of universities and colleges

This is a list of lists of universities and colleges.

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Lists of universities and colleges by country

This is a list of lists of universities and colleges by country, sorted by continent and region.

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Luc E. Weber

Luc E. Weber (born 18 September 1941) is the Rector Emeritus of the University of Geneva and the President of the Glion Colloquium.

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Ludwig von Moos

Ludwig von Moos (31 January 1910, in Sachseln – 26 November 1990, in Bern) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1959–1971).

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Lund

Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Luzius Wildhaber

Luzius Wildhaber (18 January 1937, Basel, Switzerland – 22 July 2020) was a Swiss judge.

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Mario Botta

Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on 1 April 1943.

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Martine Brunschwig Graf

Martine Brunschwig Graf (born 16 March 1950 in Fribourg) is a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss National Council for the Canton of Geneva from 2003 to 2011.

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Mary Daly

Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian.

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Master of Advanced Studies

A Master of Advanced Studies or Master of Advanced Study (MAS, M.A.S., or MASt) is a postgraduate degree awarded in various countries.

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Master of Laws

A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: Magister Legum or Legum Magister) is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject.

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Maurice Zermatten

Maurice Zermatten (22 October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

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Michael Browne (cardinal)

Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P. (born David Browne, 6 May 1887 – 31 March 1971), was an Irish priest of the Dominican Order and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Michel Plancherel

Michel Plancherel (16 January 1885 – 4 March 1967) was a Swiss mathematician.

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Nation (university)

Student nations or simply nations (natio meaning "being born") are regional corporations of students at a university.

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National Council (Switzerland)

The National Council (Nationalrat; Conseil national; Consiglio nazionale; Cussegl naziunal) is the lower house of the Federal Assembly, with the upper house being the Council of States.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Nielsen Corporation

The Nielsen Corporation, self-referentially known as The Nielsen Company, and formerly known as ACNielsen or AC Nielsen, is a global marketing research firm, with worldwide headquarters in New York City, United States.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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Otmar Hasler

Otmar Hasler (born 28 September 1953) is a politician from Liechtenstein who served as the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2001 to 2009.

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Patrick Aebischer

Patrick Aebischer (born 22 November 1954 in Fribourg, Switzerland) has been the president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 17 March 2000 to 31 December 2016.

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Peter Canisius

Peter Canisius (Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest.

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Peter Hildebrand Meienberg

Peter Hildebrand Meienberg (27 November 1929 – 3 December 2021) was a Swiss Benedictine missionary who spent more than 50 years in East Africa working on refugee aid, prison reform, education, and other social determinants of health.

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Peter Thullen

Peter Thullen (24 August 1907 in Trier – 24 June 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.

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Peter Trudgill

Peter Trudgill, (born 7 November 1943) is an English sociolinguist, academic and author.

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Pietro Balestra (economist)

Pietro Balestra (April 2, 1935 – June 23, 2005) was a Swiss economist specializing in econometrics.

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President of Israel

The president of the State of Israel (Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or Nesi HaMedina President of the State) is the head of state of Israel.

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President of Poland

The president of Poland (Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland (Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of the Republic of Poland.

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President of the Swiss Confederation

The president of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the president of the confederation, federal president or colloquially as the president of Switzerland, is as primus inter pares among the other members of the Federal Council formally the head of Switzerland's seven-member executive branch.

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President of the United Nations General Assembly

The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis.

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Public university

A public university or public college is a university or college that is owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government.

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Québécois people

Québécois (also known as Quebecers or Quebeckers in English) are people associated with Quebec.

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René Fasel

René Fasel (born 6 February 1950) is a Swiss-Russian retired ice hockey administrator.

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Richard T. McCormack

Richard T. McCormack is an American government official and diplomat.

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Rupert Mayer

Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich.

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Ruth Metzler

Ruth Metzler (born Arnold, 23 May 1964) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2003.

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Sandoz

Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars.

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Saxony

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.

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Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Sérgio Vieira de Mello (15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years.

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Schweizerischer Studentenverein

The Schweizerischer Studentenverein (Swiss Student's Society, abbreviation SSS; French: Société des Étudiants Suisses) is a society of colour bearing students of both genders and at the same time a federation of student corporations which are called sections.

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Science and technology in Switzerland

Science and technology in Switzerland play an important role in the Swiss economy, which has very few natural resources that are available in the country.

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Simonetta Sommaruga

Simonetta Myriam Sommaruga (born 14 May 1960) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2022.

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Sion, Switzerland

Sion is a Swiss town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Valais and of the district of Sion.

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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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Spielleyt

Freiburger Spielleyt is a Swiss medieval music ensemble based in Freiburg, Germany, founded in 1990.

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St. Gallen

St.

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Stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard

Stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard is a stadium in Fribourg, Switzerland, located next to Patinoire Saint-Léonard. University of Fribourg and stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard are Buildings and structures in the canton of Fribourg and Fribourg.

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Stanisław Mieroszewski

Count Stanisław Mieroszewski (Mieroszowski) (1827–1900) was a Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria.

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Stephan Klapproth

Stephan Klapproth (born 1958) is a Swiss journalist, television presenter, and professor, who was from 1993 to 2015, the popular anchorman of the Swiss national evening news shows 10vor10.

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Studentenverbindung

Studentenverbindung or studentische Korporation (often referred to as Verbindung) is the umbrella term for many different kinds of fraternity-type associations in German-speaking countries, including Corps, Burschenschaften, Landsmannschaften, Turnerschaften, and Catholic fraternities.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Ticino

Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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University

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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University of Fribourg

The University of Fribourg (Université de Fribourg; Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland. University of Fribourg and university of Fribourg are 1889 establishments in Switzerland, Buildings and structures in the canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and universities and colleges established in 1889.

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University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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University of St. Gallen

The University of St.

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University of Zurich

The University of Zurich (UZH, Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Uppsala

Uppsala (archaically spelled Upsala) is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.

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Urs Felber

Urs Felber (born 10 July 1942), a pioneer of furniture design, was the CEO of Vitra USA.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas

Vincas Mykolaitis, known by his pen name Putinas (literally Viburnum); 6 January 1893 – 7 June 1967), was a Lithuanian writer, poet and translator, accorded the honour of being a People's Writer of the Lithuanian SSR in 1963. He was also a Catholic priest, but renounced his priesthood in 1935.

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W. G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic.

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Werner Ulrich

Werner Ulrich (born 1948) is a Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, and a former professor of the theory and practice of social planning at the University of Fribourg.

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Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)

Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 — February 10, 1954) was a German-Austrian Catholic priest, linguist and ethnologist.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

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References

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