Ulrich von Hutten
German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ulrich von Hutten (21 April 1488 – 29 August 1523) was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
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Born | (1488-04-21)21 April 1488 Burg Steckelberg, near Schlüchtern, Hesse |
Died | 29 August 1523(1523-08-29) (aged 35) Ufenau on Lake Zurich |
Occupation | Monk, knight, writer |
Education | Theology |
Alma mater | University of Greifswald |
Period | Reformation |
Literary movement | Reformation, Renaissance humanism, German Renaissance |
Notable works | Epistolae obscurorum virorum De Morbo Gallico Ars versificandi Nemo |
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By 1519, he was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church. Hutten was a bridge between the Renaissance humanists and the Lutheran Reformation. He was a leader of the knights of the Holy Roman Empire along with Franz von Sickingen. Both were the leaders in the Knights' War.