Ulrich von Hutten, his life and times / by David Friedrich Strauss, tr., with the author's permission, from the 2d German ed., by Mrs. G. Sturge.

  • David Strauss
Date:
1874
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Credit: Ulrich von Hutten, his life and times / by David Friedrich Strauss, tr., with the author's permission, from the 2d German ed., by Mrs. G. Sturge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. A LTHOUGH the life of Ulrich von Hutten cannot have the special interest for English readers which Dr. Strauss claims for it for his compatriots, it offers sufficient interest in itself to render it worthy of a closer acquaintance than many of them possess; for though his name is fre- quently mentioned in connection with the Reformation, he is, if I mistake not, little more than a name except to those who have wandered into the more curious paths of literature, and his writings are almost entirely unknown. His life also offers a contribution to the history of the beginning of the Reformation, and from a different point of view from that commonly presented to us. No words of mine can so well introduce Hutten to the reader as the following quotation from a review of the second German edition of the book * :— In one sense this is an old book in a new shape, and yet it deserves the title of novelty. In the season of despondency and reaction that followed the miscarriage of popular hopes in Germany after 1848, Dr. Strauss sought, for himself consolation, for his countrymen encouragement, in the study of Ulrich von
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