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.
A universidade de Zúric foi fundada o 29 de abril de 1833, cando os colexios de Teoloxía (fundado por Huldrych Zwingli en 1525), Dereito e Medicina fusionaron xunto cunha nova facultade de Filosofía.