Arminius (dialogue)

Arminius

The title page of Friedrich Fröhlich's 1815 German-Latin parallel text version of Hutten's Arminius dialogue
Author	Ulrich von Hutten
Original title	Arminius. Dialogus Huttenicus quo humo patriae amantissimus patriae laudem celebravit
Language	Latin
Publication date	1529

Arminius. Dialogus Huttenicus quo humo patriae amantissimus patriae laudem celebravit, more commonly known simply as Arminius, is a Latin dialogue by the German Renaissance humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523). It was likely written in 1520, but not published until 1529, six years after Hutten's death.

Arminius is notable for being the first modern text to adapt the story of the Germanic military leader Arminius (often called Hermann) after the rediscovery of Tacitus' Annals and Germania in the fifteenth century,^[1] and for inspiring several later adaptations by German authors, perhaps most notably Heinrich von Kleist's 1808 play Die Hermannsschlacht.