Anna Göldi

female, deceased (1782)
Anna Göldi is known as the "last witch" in Switzerland. She was executed for murder in June 1782 in Glarus. Anna Göldi worked as a maidservant fo...
Vreni Schneider

Vreni Schneider

female, 45 years old
Verena "Vreni" Schneider is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most...
Aegidius Tschudi

Aegidius Tschudi

male, deceased (1572)
Aegidius (or Giles) Tschudi (February 5, 1505-February 28, 1572), was an eminent member of the Tschudi family, of Glarus, Switzerland. After having...
Corinne Hofmann

Corinne Hofmann

female, 49 years old
Corinne Hofmann is a Swiss author most famous for her multi-million selling memoir "Die weisse Massai" (The White Masai). Born on June 4, 1960 to...
Johann Jakob von Tschudi

Johann Jakob von Tschudi

male, deceased (1889)
Johann Jakob von Tschudi was a Swiss naturalist and explorer. Tschudi was born in Glarus, and studied natural sciences and medicine at the...
Heinrich Wild

Heinrich Wild

male, deceased (1951)
Heinrich Wild was a Swiss inventor, designer and founder of Wild Heerbrugg. He was born November 15, 1877, at Mitlödi, (Canton Glarus). With 15 y...
Heinrich Glarean

Heinrich Glarean

male, deceased (1563)
Heinrich Glarean (also Glareanus) (June 1488-March 28, 1563) was a Swiss music theorist, poet and humanist. He was born in Mollis (in the canton of...
Johann Gottfried Ebel

Johann Gottfried Ebel

male, deceased (1830)
Johann Gottfried Ebel, the author of the first real guide-book to Switzerland, was born at Zullichau (Prussia). He became a medical man, visited...
Rudolf Stussi

Rudolf Stussi

male, deceased (1443)
Rudolf Stussi is a Swiss-born artist who came to Canada in 1967 to attend Carlton University. Stussi also studied and taught at the Ontario College...
Rudolf Trumpy

Rudolf Trumpy

male, 88 years old
Rudolf Trumpy is a Swiss Geologist, who was born in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zürich in the late 1940s with a t...