2-715-094 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ulrich Von Hutten, 1516', (1936). 'Ulrich von Hutten at Viterbo in the battle with five Frenchmen, who mocked Maximilian'. German scholar, poet and satirist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), was the leader of the Imperial Knights of the Holy Roman Empire, a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer. He is depicted fighting French nobles at an inn in Viterbo, Italy, after they mocked Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]