Briefe von Dunkelmännern
Subtitle: Epistolae obscurorum virorum : an Magister Ortuin Gratius aus Deventer, Professor der schönen Wissenschaften zu Cöln
By: Zum erstenmal ins Deutsche übersetzt von Wilhelm Binder
Contributors: Crotus Rubianus, approximately 1480-1539, supposed author; Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523, supposed author; Busche, Hermann von dem, approximately 1468-1534, supposed author
Publisher: E.B. Griesbach
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Gera
Language: ger
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 268
Work titles: Epistolae obscurorum virorum German
Notes: Authorship of the Epistolae formerly attributed to Reuchlin, Erasmus, Hutten and others. More recent research has made it almost certain that Crotus Rubeanus and Ulrich von Hutten were the main contributors. To Crotus are credited the first 41 letters; to Hutten the 7 letters added later to the original series and most of the letters of the second series, with the possible co-operation of a third person, Hermann von dem Busche. The authorship of the rest remains doubtful.