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§ 33. THE REFORMATION IN GLARUS. TSCHUDI. GLAREAN.
Valentin Tschudi: Chronik der Reformationsjahre 1521–1533. Mit
Glossar und Commentar von Dr. Joh. Strickler. Glarus, 1888 (pp.
258). Publ. in the “Jahrbuch des historischen Vereins des Kantons
Glarus,” Heft XXIV., also separately issued. The first edition of
Tschudi’s Chronik (Beschryb oder Erzellung, etc.) was published by
Dr. J. J. Blumer, in vol. IX. of the “Archiv für schweizerische
Geschichte,” 1853, pp. 332–447, but not in the original spelling and
without comments.
Blumer and Heer: Der Kanton Glarus, historisch, geographisch und
topographisch beschrieben. St. Gallen, 1846. DR. J. J. BLUMER: Die
Reformation im Lande Glarus. In the “Jahrbuch des historischen
Vereins des Kantons Glarus.” Zürich and Glarus, 1873 and 1875 (Heft
IX. 9–48; XI. 3–26). H. G. SULZBERGER: Die Reformation des Kant.
Glarus und des St. Gallischen Bezirks Werdenberg. Heiden, 1875 (pp.
44).
Heinrich Schreiber: Heinrich Loriti Glareanus, gekrönter Dichter,
Philolog und Mathematiker aus dem 16ten Jahrhundert. Freiburg,
1837. OTTO FRIDOLIN FRITZSCHE (Prof. of Church Hist. in Zürich):
Glarean, sein Leben und seine Schriften. Frauenfeld, 1890 (pp. 136).
Comp. also GEIGER: Renaissance und Humanismus (1882), pp. 420–
423, for a good estimate of Glarean as a humanist.
The canton Glarus with the capital of the same name occupies the narrow
Linththal surrounded by high mountains, and borders on the territory of
Protestant Zürich and of Catholic Schwyz. It wavered for a good while
between the two opposing parties and tried to act as peacemaker.
Landammann Hans Aebli of Glarus, a friend of Zwingli and an enemy of
the foreign military service, prevented a bloody collision of the
Confederates in the first war of Cappel. This is characteristic of the
position of that canton.
Glarus was the scene of the first public labors of Zwingli from 1506 to
1516. f182 He gained great influence as a classical scholar, popular preacher,
and zealous patriot, but made also enemies among the friends of the
foreign military service, the evils of which he had seen in the Italian
campaigns. He established a Latin school and educated the sons of the best
families, including the Tschudis, who traced their ancestry back to the ninth