I was referred to this account ofJordan's Indiana days by Myles Brand, President of Indiana University. He was, next to Luther, the boldest and most effective polemical writer of that period, and was called the German Demosthenes on account of his philippics against Rome. Mirrielees, note 4 supra, 183-84. When I say Jupiter, I mean Christ and the true God. Anyway…Ulrich von Hutten …German reformer…meaning he lived during the time in Europe known as The Protestant Reformation in which some Christians separated from The Roman Catholic Church and had serious conflicts with The Church and the ruling authorities of various European countries. The union of knights and cities resulted in a ruinous campaign of Franz von Sickingen against Treves.
I regret the wholebusiness very much on my own account but more especially on that of theUniversity. You will come into the calendar, scoundrel. Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum was written in support of Hutten's mentor, the prominent theologian , who was engaged in a struggle to prevent the confiscation of Hebrew texts. If the harvest fails in any year, then follow dire poverty, unrest, and turbulence. Ulrich von Hutten was a German scholar, poet, and hereditary knight. On that account, we must have a large equipage of horses, arms, and followers, and all at great expense.
Additional Biography Sources Holborn, Hajo, Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation, Westport, Conn. He wrote me back that there was nothingin the Jordan Papers at Indiana that gave a clue. The translator says he knew twenty-seven Latin editions, but no translation. Er verblüffte den Kaiser mit seinen politischen Ratschlägen. His religion, whatever itmay be, is his own.
In 1511 he published a treatise on The Art of Versification. He went onpreaching it now. He himself speaks very frankly of his Morbus Gallicus, or Malum Franciaeand its horrible effects, without asserting his innocence. While Luther acquired in Melanchthon, the head of the Christian and theological wing of the humanists, a permanent and invaluable ally, he received also temporary aid and comfort from the pagan and political wing of the humanists, and its ablest leader, Ulrich von Hutten. Content to him was laziness ; love of home but a dog's delight in a warm fire. When the boy had tramped awhile in storm and slush, two servants of Lotz overtook him on the road and robbed him of his money and clothing. It is characteristic of the church of that age, that Hutten was on terms of intimacy with the first prelate of Germany, even while he wrote his violent attacks on Rome, and received a salary, and afterwards a pension, from him.
In a most forlorn plight he reached a little inn in Rostock, in Mecklenberg. Hutten displayed hisimpatience with theologians who pretend to know God's will and firmlycame down on the side of natural causes. Three hundred years ago it was easy to answer with Erasmus and the rest — Nothing. Humanism is the broad mirror-like Rhine at Bingen. I must attach myself to some prince in the hope of protection.
Nineteenmen were in attendance at the first faculty meeting on October 3, 1891;Edith R. He now set his pen to writing epigrams on the Emperor of Germany, wherein Maximilian was compared to the eagle which should de- vour the frogs in the swamps of Venice. She must be young, pretty, well educated, serene, tender, pa- tient. Unlike Luther, Hutten tried to enforce reformation by military means when he, along with attempted to begin popular crusade within the Holy Roman Empire against the power of the Roman Catholic Church in favour of Luther's reformed religion. Sein Ritteraufstand gegen die Fürsten scheiterte, sein mittelalterlicher Traum der Ritterrepublik zerrann. Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. His strong Castle of Landstuhl was besieged by the Catholic princes, and cannon was used in this siege for the first time in history.
He had stirred up noble- men to battle for freedom, and they, too, had been destroyed. Whilst the books in this collection have not been hand curated, an aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature. This history of the phraseby Chancellor Emeritus Jordan is timely as well as interesting. To the famous Baths of Pfaffers he went, in hope of release from pain. Strauss discusses it fully with a belief in his guilt, yet pity for his sufferings and admiration for his endurance. Meanwhile he wandered to Vienna, giving lectures there on the art of poetry.
Es blieb sein dichterisches Werk. He does not stalk about on yard-long shin-bones, nor does his gigantic figure frighten travelers; but in strength of spirit he yields to none. My eyes are too weak for me to waste their strength on matters which are not useful. An English translation by no less a writer thanGeorge Eliot appeared in 1846. For he fought for free- dom of the spirit, not for the Lutheran confession.