Tobias Jammerthal

Tobias Jammerthal is professor of church history and history of theology at the University of Zurich.

The University of Zurich’s grandmother turns 500

Tobias Jammerthal 19.06.2025 The first public lectures were held in Zurich in June 1525. This marked the beginning of higher education in the city on the Limmat, which would lead to the founding of the university 300 years later.

A meeting of scholars in Zurich, depicted on a print from the 19th century.