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Konrad Mutian (October 15, 1471 - March 30, 1526) was a German humanist. He was born in Homberg of well-to-do parents named Mut, and was subsequently known as Konrad Mutianus Rufus from his red hair. At Deventer under Alexander Hegius he'd Erasmus as school-fellow; proceeding (1486) to the university of Erfurt, he took the master's degree in 1492. From 1495 he travelled in Italy, taking the doctor's degree in Canon law at Bologna. Returning in 1502, the landgraf of Hesse promoted him to high office. The post wasn't congenial; he resigned it (1503) for a small salary as canonicus in Gotha.
Mutian was a man of great influence in a select circle especially connected with the university of Erfurt, and known as the Mutianischer Bund, which included Eoban Hess, Crotus Rubeanus, Justus Jonas and other leaders of independent thought. He had no public ambition; except in correspondence, and as an epigrammatist, he was no writer, but he furnished ideas to those who wrote. He took from Petrarch his emphasis on leading a good life and believed religion should stress ethics over theology.
He may deserve the title which has been given him as "precursor of the Reformation," in so far as he desired the reform of the Church based on the writings of St. Paul, but not the establishment of a rival. Like Erasmus, he was with Luther in his early stage, but deserted him in his later development. Though he'd personally no hand in it, the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (due especially to Crotus Rubeanus) was the outcome of the Reuchlinists in his Bund. He died at Gotha on the 30th of March (Good Friday) 1526.

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FW Kampschulte, Die Universität Erfurt (1858-1860)
K Krause, Eobanus Hessus (1879)
L Geiger, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biog. (1886)
K Krause, Der Briefwechsel des Mutianus Rufus (1885)
another collection by K Gillert (1890).

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