Egloff Etterlin (c. 1400 – c. 1470) served as secretary of the city of

Lucerne Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label= Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital o ...

from 1427 until 1452, and during 1458/9 as judge. A native of

Brugg , neighboring_municipalities = Gebenstorf, Habsburg, Hausen, Holderbank, Lupfig, Riniken, Rüfenach, Schinznach, Untersiggenthal, Villigen, Villnachern, Veltheim, Windisch , twintowns = Rottweil (Germany) , website ...

, Egloff received Lucerne citizenship in 1422. He married Agnes Stutzenbergin, daughter of

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merchant Klaus Stutzenberg, and, after his first wife's death in 1439, Mechthild von Löwenbach as his second wife. Besides acting as city scribe, he was the delegate to the

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and to

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. During the

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he sought connections to merchants of

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, and later entered business relations with Milan in the interest of his father-in-law. He is the author of the "Silver Book" (''Silbernes Buch''), an extensive

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which was richly ornamented in 1505. Introducing Italian methods of book-keeping, he greatly facilitated the organisation of the Lucerne chancery, allowing the administration of the growing territory of Lucerne and its presidency in the Swiss Diet. Egloff is the father of chronist

Petermann Etterlin Petermann Etterlin (c. 1430/40 – c. 1509) was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, as the son of Egloff Etterlin, who served as chronicler of the city of Lucerne from 1427 to 1453.Müller, p. 397. Although his parents had destined him for an ecc ...

. It is uncertain whether Egloff himself was the author of a (lost) chronicle. Egloff died at some point between 1469 and 1477.

References

* *K. Wanner, "Schreiber, Chronisten und Frühhumanisten in der Luzerner Stadtkanzlei des 15. Jh", ''Jahrbuch der Historischen Gesellschaft Luzern'' 18, 2000, 2–44. {{DEFAULTSORT:Etterlin, Egloff 15th-century births 1470s deaths People from Brugg People from Lucerne Swiss diplomats 15th-century Swiss people