Tschudi

Tschudi (variants: Schudy, Shoudy, Shudi, Schudi, Tschudy) is a surname common in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

History
The Tschudi name can be traced back to 870. After Glarus joined the Swiss Confederation in 1352, various members of the family held high political offices at home and held distinguished positions abroad, including as royal guards.

Several branches of the Tschudi family and their servants' families, who took on their masters' last name, first began emigrating to the United States in the mid-18th century (1700s), where the name Tschudi had its spelling changed to Judah, Judy, Juday, Judey, and also Shoudy and Study. All are still in use.

People

 * Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), a Swiss statesman and historian.
 * Burkat Shudi (1702–1773), an English harpsichord maker
 * Federico Carlos Tschudi (1852-1932), Swiss farmer
 * Clara Tschudi (1856-1945), a Norwegian writer
 * Fridolin Tschudi (1912–1966), Swiss author and humorist
 * Gilles Tschudi (born 1957), actor
 * Hans-Peter Tschudi (1913–2002), Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council
 * Herbert Bolivar Tschudy (1874–1946), painter, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
 * Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889), Swiss naturalist, explorer and diplomat
 * Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), Swiss artist
 * Otto Tschudi (born 1949), a Norwegian alpine skier
 * Ralph Tschudi (1890–1975) a Norwegian sailor, competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
 * Stephan Tschudi-Madsen (1923-2007) a Norwegian art historian.

Other people called Tschudi

 * Christopher (1571–1629) was a knight of Malta and a linguist who served in the French and Spanish armies
 * Dominic (1596–1654) was abbot of Muri and wrote Origo et genealogia gloriosissimorum comitum de Habsburg (1651), second (enlarged) edition Muri, 1702 (cf. also E. Haller, Schweizerbibliothek, 1785, vol. II, No. 1904).
 * Iwan (1816–1887) was author of a guide-book to Switzerland, which appeared in 1875 under the name of Schweizerführer
 * Joseph was a Benedictine monk at Einsiedeln, wrote a history of his abbey (1823)
 * John Henry (1670–1729) wrote Beschreibung des Lands Glarus (1714)
 * John Thomas (1714–1788) left several manuscripts on the local history of Glarus
 * John James (1722–1784) compiled a family history from 900 to 1500
 * John Louis Baptist (died 1784) was a naturalist who settled in Metz
 * Frederick (1820–1886) was the author of Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt (1853)
 * John Jacob Tschudy (1826-1899) helped manage the colony of New Glarus, Wisconsin from 1846 to 1852
 * Lill (1911–2004) was a Swiss painter and linocut artist
 * Louis Leonard (1700–1779) and Joseph Anthony (1703–1770) were brothers and both worked in the Neapolitan service
 * Valentine (1499–1555) was a pupil of Huldrych Zwingli, whom he afterwards succeeded as pastor of Glarus, where his services were attended by both Romanists and Protestants

Other uses

 * The Tschudi Group, a Norwegian shipping company