Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523) was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church and adherent of the Lutheran Reformation. Von Hutten studied theology at the University of Greifswald. He was leader of the Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire and a great Humanist thinker.

Unlike Martin Luther, von Hutten tried to enforce reformation by military means when he, along with Franz von Sickingen von Hutten 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. They attacked the lands of the Archbishop of Trier in 1522. However the Archbishop held out and the knights were eventually defeated in 1523, destroying them as a significant political force withing the Holy Roman Empire.

Following his defeat

For the final 15 years of his life, von Hutten was suffering from syphilis of which he died in seclusion on the isle Ufenau on Lake Zurich. He authored a text in 1519, De morbo gallico about the treatment of syphilis, which is now regarded as one of the first patient narratives in the history of medicine.

Von Hutten's refuge to Ufenau and his death are the subject of a poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Huttens letzte Tage.

ჰუტენი, ულრიხ ფონ Ulrichas fon Hutenas ウルリヒ・フォン・フッテン Ulrich von Hutten Ulrich von Huttendk:Ulrich af Hutten