page_title: Ulrich von Hutten
section_title: Strife with Ulrich of Württemberg
hierarchical_section_title: Ulrich von Hutten / Biography / Strife with Ulrich of Württemberg
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: St. Peter und Paul (1142, erste Erwähnung 970) auf der Insel Ufenau war über Jahrhunderte die Pfarrkirche für die umliegenden Gemeinden im Gebiet des 'linksufrigen' Zürichsees und ist die letzte Ruhestätte von Ulrich von Hutten (*1488; †1523 auf der Ufenau).English: St. Peter und Paul was built in 1142, a former building is first mentioned in 970 A.D. St. Peter und Paul was for centuries a Parish church, situated on the Ufenau island (Zürichsee) in Switzerland. Ulrich von Hutten (*1488; †1523) refuged on the island and is buried besides St. Peter und Paul.
context_page_description: Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
  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 Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire along with Franz von Sickingen. Both were the leaders in the Knights' Revolt.
context_section_description: But the murder in 1515 of his relative Hans von Hutten by Ulrich, duke of Württemberg changed the whole course of Hutten's life; satire, chief refuge of the weak, became his weapon. With one hand he took his part in the famous Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (The Letters of Obscure Men), and with the other launched scathing letters, eloquent Ciceronian orations, or biting satires against the duke. These works made him known throughout Germany.
  Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum was written in support of Hutten's mentor, the prominent theologian Johannes Reuchlin, who was engaged in a struggle to prevent the confiscation of Hebrew texts. Epistolæ contained a series of fictitious letters, addressed to Hardwin von Grätz, that sarcastically attacked the scholastic theologians who were acting against Reuchlin.
  Hutten went again to Italy to take the degree of doctor of laws, and returned to Germany in 1517. There the emperor took him under his protection and bestowed on him the honors of a poet's laureate crown and knighthood. However, he also spared Ulrich, duke of Württemberg. While in Italy, Hutten had become imbued with a fierce hatred for the papacy, which he bitterly attacked in his preface to an edition of Laurentius Valla's De Donatione Constantini, published in 1517. He thus helped prepare the way for Martin Luther.
  In 1518, Hutten accompanied his patron, Archbishop Albert, on several official journeys to Paris and to the Diet of Augsburg, where Luther had his famous conference with Thomas Cajetan. Subsequently, Hutten established a small printing press, and published pamphlets written in the German language attacking the Pope and the Roman clergy.
caption: Hutten's gravestone on Ufenau island
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