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

Biography

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.

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