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See also:TSCHUDI, or SCHUDY , the name of one of the most distinguished families of the See also:land of See also:Glarus, See also:Switzerland. It can be traced back as a See also:peasant, not a See also:noble, See also:race to 1289, while after Glarus joined the Swiss See also:Confederation in 1352 various members of the See also:family held high See also:political offices at See also:home, and were distinguished abroad as soldiers and in other ways.
In literature, its most eminent member was See also:GILEs or AEGIDIUs TSCHUDI (1505-1572), who, after having served his native Iand in various oflices, in 1558 became the See also:chief See also:magistrate or landarnmann, and in 1559 was ennobled by the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand, to whom he had been sent as See also:ambassador. Originally inclined to moderation, he became later in See also:life more and more devoted to the cause of the See also:counter-See also:Reformation. It is, however, as the historian of the Swiss Confederation that he is best known; by incessant wanderings and unwearied researches amongst See also:original documents he collected material for three See also:great See also:works, which therefore can never wholly lose their value, though his researches have been largely corrected by those of more See also:recent students. In 1538 his See also:book on Rhaetia, written in 1528, was published in Latin and in See also:German—De prisca ac See also:vera Alpina Rhaetia, or See also:Die uralt wahrhaf tig Alpisch Rh¢tia. The See also:historical reputation of Giles Tschudi has suffered very much owing to recent researches. His inventions as to the See also:early See also:history of the Swiss Confederation are described under TELL. His statements and documents See also:relating to See also:Roman times and the early history of Glarus and his own family had See also:long roused suspicion. Detailed examination of See also:late years has proved beyond the See also:shadow of a doubt that he not merely claimed to have copied Roman See also:inscriptions that never existed, and amended others in a most arbitrary See also:fashion, but that he deliberately forged a number of documents with a view to pushing back the origin of his family to the loth See also:century, thus also entirely misrepresenting the early history of Glarus, which is that of a democratic community, and not (as he pretended) that of a preserve of several aristocratic families. Tschudi's historical See also:credit is thus hopelessly ruined, and no
document printed or historical statement made by him can henceforward be accepted without careful verification and examination. These discoveries have a painful See also:interest and importance, since down to the latter See also:part of the rgth century Swiss historical writers had largely based their works on his investigations and See also:manuscripts.
For a See also:summary of these discoveries see G. v. Wyss in the Jahrbuch of the Historical Society of Glarus (1895), vol. See also:xxx., in No. i (1894), of the Anzeiger f. schweizerische Geschichte, and in his Geschichte d. Historiographie in d. Schweiz (1895), pp. 196, 201, 202. The original articles by Vogelin (Roman inscriptions) appeared in vols. xi., xiv. and xv. (1886–1890) of the Jahrbuch f. schweizer Geschichte, and that by Schulte (Glarus) in vol. xviii. (1893) of the same periodical. For the See also:defence, see a weak pamphlet, Schulte u. Tschudi (See also:Coire, 1898), by P. C. v. Planta.
Tschudi's chief works were not published until long after his See also:death. The Beschreibung Galliae Comatae appeared under Gallati's editorship in 1758, and is mainly devoted to a topographical, historical and antiquarian description of See also:ancient Helvetia and Rhaetia, the latter part being his early See also:work on Rhaetia revised and greatly enlarged. This book was designed practically as an introduction to his magnum See also:opus, the Chronicon helveticum, part of which (from 1001 to 1470) was published by J. R. Iselin in two stately folios (1734–1736); the See also:rest consists only of rough materials. There exist two rather antiquated See also:biographies of Tschudi by I. See also:Fuchs (2 vols., St See also:Gall, 1805) and C. See also:Vogel (See also:Zurich, 1856), but his extensive See also:complete See also:correspondence has not yet been printed.
Subjoined is a See also:list of other prominent members of the family. DOMIMc (1596—1654) was See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of See also:Muri and wrote a painstaking work, Origo et genealogia gloriosissimorum comitum de See also:Habsburg (1651). See also:JosEPH, a See also:Benedictine See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk at See also:Einsiedeln, wrote a useful history of his See also:abbey (1823). The family, which became divided in religious matters at the Reformation, also includes several See also:Protestant ministers: See also:JOHN See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (167o-1729), who wrote Beschreibung See also:des Lands Glarus (1714) ; JOHN See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1714—1788), who See also:left behind him several elaborate See also:MSS. on the See also:local history of Glarus; and JOHN See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1722—1784), who compiled an elaborate family history from goo to 1500, and an See also:account of other Glarus families. JOHN See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis BAPTIST (d. 1784), who settled in See also:Metz and contributed to the Encyclopedia, and See also:FREDERICK (182o-1886), the author of Das Thierleben der Alpenwell (1853), were distinguished naturalists. Among the soldiers may be mentioned See also:CHRISTOPHER (1571—1629), a See also:knight of See also:Malta and an excellent linguist, who served in the See also:French and See also:Spanish armies; while the See also:brothers Louis LEONARD (1700—1779) and JOSEPH See also:ANTHONY (1703—1770) were in the Neapolitan service. See also:VALENTINE (1499-1555), the See also:cousin of Giles, was, like the latter, a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Zwingli, whom he afterwards succeeded as pastor of Glarus, and by his moderation gained so much See also:influence that during the See also:thirty years of his See also:ministry his services were attended alike by Romanists and Protestants. The best-known member of the family in the 19th century was IwAN (1816—1887), author of an excellent See also:guide-book to Switzerland, which appeared first (18J5) under the name of Schweizerfuhrer, but is best known under the See also:title (given in 1872 to an entirely recast edition) of Der Tourist in der Schweiz. (W. A. B.
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