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Philipp von Hutten (
December 18,
1505 –
May 17,
1546 in
El Tocuyo,
Venezuela),
German knight, was a relative of
Ulrich von Hutten and passed some of his early years at the court of the
emperor Charles V.
Later he joined the band of adventurers, under
Georg von Speyer, who sailed to
Venezuela, or Venosala as Hutten calls it, with the object of
conquering and exploiting this land in the interests of the Augsburg family of
Welser. The party landed at
Coro in February
1535 and Hutten accompanied von Speyer on his long and toilsome expedition into the interior in search of treasure (
El Dorado). In December
1540, after the death of von Speyer in June
1540, he became governor (captain-general) of Venezuela.
Soon after this event he vanished into the interior, returning after five years of wandering to find that a Spaniard,
Juan de Carvajal, had been appointed governor in his absence. With his travelling companion,
Bartholomew Welser the younger, he was seized by Carvajal in April 1546 and the two were afterwards put to death.
Hutten left some letters, and also a narrative of the earlier part of his adventures, this
Zeitung aus India Junkher Philipps von Hutten being published in 1785.
In 1983, Venezuelan author
Francisco Herrera-Luque (1927-1991) published a novel named
La Luna de Fausto (
Faust's Moon) where he narrates the adventures of von Hutten (called Felipe de Utre in old Spanish accounts) since he traveled from Europe to Coro, until beheaded by Juan de Carvajal over a power dispute. According to the legend, his death was prophetized by Dr.
Faust himself, who told him he was going to die under a "red moon".
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