diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 2f677e0cc..a459312cb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@
 [submodule "thirdparty/boost-mp11"]
 	path = thirdparty/boost-mp11
 	url = https://github.com/boostorg/mp11
+[submodule "thirdparty/fmt"]
+	path = thirdparty/fmt
+	url = https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 44bf8d228..29cf97159 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ target_link_libraries(
   PUBLIC MPFR
          Boost::multiprecision
          Boost::math
-         Boost::container_hash)
+         Boost::container_hash
+         fmt::fmt)
 
 include(cmake/CompilerWarnings.cmake)
 include(cmake/Coverage.cmake)
diff --git a/thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt b/thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt
index 7e199d2b5..a35b2d4d3 100644
--- a/thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ mark_include_directories_as_system(boost_multiprecision)
 add_subdirectory(boost-math)
 mark_include_directories_as_system(boost_math)
 
+add_subdirectory(fmt)
+mark_include_directories_as_system(fmt)
+
 if(${PROJECT_NAME}_build_tests)
   add_subdirectory(googletest)
 endif()
diff --git a/thirdparty/fmt b/thirdparty/fmt
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..e69e5f977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty/fmt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit e69e5f977d458f2650bb346dadf2ad30c5320281