Gilg Tschudi

Gilg Tschudi (born Feb. 5, 1505, Glarus, Switz.—died Feb. 28, 1572, Glarus) was a Swiss humanist and scholar, the author of a chronicle of Swiss history that was used as a source by many subsequent writers, including Friedrich Schiller. Though a pupil of the religious reformer Huldrych Zwingli, Tschudi remained a convinced and militant Roman Catholic; and his efforts to eliminate the Zwinglians came to be known as the Tschudikrieg (“Tschudi’s War”; 1558–64). After holding...