Frieda Gallati

Frieda Gallati (September 12, 1876, Glarus, Switzerland — December 30, 1955, Glarus, Switzerland) was a Swiss historian.^[1]

Frieda Gallati was born into a family of a lawyer Rudolf Gallati. Graduated from secondary school in Zurich. From 1896 she studied at the University of Zurich, where she received her doctorate in history in 1902 - the second Swiss woman to do so. In 1907 she married professor Wilhelm Melchior, from whom she divorced again in 1915.^[2][3]

Gallati was a specialist in the field of Swiss foreign policy during the Thirty Years' War and she is considered the most important connoisseur of Aegidius Tschudi.