Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight. He was born in 1488 at the family castle of Steckelberg on the Main and died in 1523. He was distinguished for the influence which his writings exercised upon the Reformation. Educated at the famous monastic school of Eulda, he led a wandering and unsettled life, sometimes appearing as the man of letters and controversialist, at other times as the soldier. His first attacks on the Roman Church were in connection with his defence of the persecuted Reuchlin, and with the issuing of the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum. In 1517 he was crowned laureate at Augsburg, and knighted by the emperor. A year or two after he retired to his paternal castle to write work after work, addressing the people, like Luther, in their native German, and denouncing the arrogance and corruption of Rome. The Roman authorities at length began to move against him, and he fled to the castle of his friend Franz von Sickingen, and from that again to Switzerland, where he died in 1523. Research Ulrich von Hutten
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