Hans Salat

Salat, Hans (Sursee, Switzerland, 1498-1561, Freiburg), a Roman Catholic, led an adventurous life and fought against the Reformers in 1529. He became clerk of the law courts in Lucerne, but was dismissed in 1540. He attacked the Reformation in various historical and satirical works, including Der Tanngrotz (1531), Triumphus Herculis Helvetici (1532), Chronik (1536, of the Reformation), and Des frommen Bruder Clausen Leben (1536, see Nikolaus von der Flüe). He also wrote two anti-Protestant plays, Judith (1534) and Der verlorene Sohn (1535); the latter has been adapted by C. von Arx (1935).