The Swiss Euphemia Dorer has left deep marks in the city’s educational history /.
Just like today, in the 17th century Freiburg people lived in a border area, and it was quite normal that Swiss or Elssser came to Breisgau or that people emigrated from here to the neighboring regions. For the wealthy Freiburg mothers and fathers, it was also obvious to bring nuns from Switzerland to the city to set up a girls’ school. In the new school, her daughters were supposed to learn not only to read, write and embroider, but also to learn French, because Freiburg had been under French occupation since 1677 and appropriate language skills were essential for the young citizens of marriageable age. One of the Swiss nuns was Euphemia Dorer and she became the driving force and soul of this foundation.
Euphemia Dorer was born on October 7, 1667 in Baden, Switzerland, and came from a well-off bourgeois family. Nothing is known about her primary school education, but she probably went to the Franciscan Sisters in Baden for primary lessons. At that time, lessons in the monastery were customary for daughters from “better homes”. It is also known from Freiburg that since the middle of the 16th century sisters of the third order …
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