The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli

"The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli" by Johann Jakob Hottinger is a historical biography that recounts the life of Ulric Zwingli and his importance to the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. The book starts with Zwingli's early life, describing how his family raised him in Toggenburg, and follows his education in Vienna and Basel, where he became a well-known scholar. It explores his education and the social and political environment that molded his ideas and actions, establishing him as a key person in the historical transformation and demonstrating how these early factors played a role as he began to reform the church and society during the Reformation.