Hutten's last days

Hutten's Last Days (published 1872) is a cycle of poems by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . Against the background of the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, Meyer achieved his literary breakthrough with this work.

The cycle consists of eight chapters with 71 stanzas. It is about the terminally ill knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten , who comes to the island of Ufenau and settles down to spend his last days there. Unbending, he justifies his fight for the Reformation and against the papacy.

Web links

• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: Hutten's last days at Zeno.org .
• Hutten's last days in the Gutenberg-DE project