Egloff Etterlin (c. 1400 – c. 1470) served as secretary of the city ofLucerne from 1427 until 1452, and during 1458/9 as judge.

A native ofBrugg, Egloff received Lucerne citizenship in 1422. He married Agnes Stutzenbergin, daughter ofBasel 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 theSwiss Diet and toMilan. During theCouncil of Basel he sought connections to merchants ofVerona, 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 extensivecartulary 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 growingterritory of Lucerne and its presidency in the Swiss Diet. Egloff is the father of chronistPetermann Etterlin who authored theChronicle of the Swiss Confederation. It is uncertain whether Egloff himself was the author of a (lost) chronicle. Egloff died at some point between 1469 and 1477.

• Gregor Egloff: Etterlin, Egloff inGerman,French andItalian in the onlineHistorical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2005.
• K. Wanner, "Schreiber, Chronisten und Frühhumanisten in der Luzerner Stadtkanzlei des 15. Jh",Jahrbuch der Historischen Gesellschaft Luzern 18, 2000, 2–44.

• 15th-century births
• 1470s deaths
• People from Brugg
• People from Lucerne
• Swiss diplomats
• 15th-century Swiss people