Ulrich Hugwald

Ulrich Hugwald (Udalricus Hugualdus, Huldaricus Mutius Hugwaldus; 1496–1571) was a Swiss humanist scholar and Reformer.

He was in correspondence with a number of reformers, such as Vadianus, Michael Stifel, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Guillaume Farel.

In 1539, he published De Germanorum prima origine, a chronistic account of the Germanic peoples (edited by Struve in 1726).

Hugwald's work is substantially based on the Chronography by Swabian historian Johannes Nauclerus, published in 1516, to a lesser degree drawing on Franciscus Irenicus, Heinrich Bebel, Beatus Rhenanus, and others.

The work is therefore of little value independent of that of Nauclerus except for its expressions of early German national sentiment paired with a patriotic love of his own homeland in Switzerland (Müller 1886).