authorship "as closed in all essential points". According to them, the first part was the work of Rubianus (save for the first epistle, written by Hutten), while the appendix and the second part were mostly by Hutten, with additional contributions from Hermann von dem Busche and others. Life as a vassal knight Hutten writes a graphic description of the harshness of life as a vassal knight (a Lehnsmann) in medieval Europe in a letter to Willibald Pirckheimer(1470–1530) that dispels the glamour with which the life of the nobility is sometimes viewed. Family In addition to Hans von Hutten, Ulrich von Hutten was also related to the German adventurer Philipp von Hutten. Legacy As a student at the University of Bonn, Carl Schurz began work on a tragedy based on Hutten's life. He abandoned it, never to return to finish the work, when the 1848 revolution broke out in Germany. During World War II, the German Wehrmacht named some of its final infantry divisions after noteworthy individuals of German history. One such infantry division, fielded in March 1945, was the Infantry Division Ulrich von Hutten. Notes References Attribution Further reading "Hutten, Ulrich von". Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Die Luft der Freiheit weht - History of Stanford University's motto, mentioning its origins in a speech about Hutten. Origins of Syphilis NY Times April 29, 2008 Fife, Robert Herndon. "Ulrich von Hutten as a Literary Problem." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 23, no. 1 (1948): 18-29. 1488 births 1523 deaths 16th-century Latin-language writers 16th-century German writers Deaths from syphilis Christian humanists German Renaissance humanists People from Schlüchtern University of Erfurt alumni European University Viadrina alumni University of Greifswald alumni Leipzig University alumni University of Rostock alumni Imperial Knights German Protestant Reformers New Latin-language poets German-language poets German male poets 16th-century German jurists