Aloys Lütolf

Aloys Lütolf (born 23 July 1824, in Gettnau near Willisau, Switzerland; died at Lucerne, 8 April 1879) was a Swiss Catholic ecclesiastical historian.

For a time Lütolf was employed as private secretary at Lucerne, and also took part in the expedition of the Sonderbund army into the Canton of Ticino.

In 1864, he was appointed viceregent of the clerical seminary at Solothurn, in 1858 professor of church history, and shortly afterwards canon of St. Leodegar's chapter at Lucerne.

His Leben und Bekenntnisse des I. L. S. Schiffmann (Lucerne, 1861) is a memorial to his former master, Father Schiffman; the book also contains important information about Bishop Sailer, and his school in Switzerland.

The latter had shortly before his death given him his historical manuscripts, and commissioned him to complete his partly finished work, Geschichte der eidgenössischen Bünde.