Felix Hemmerlin

Felix Hemmerlin (1388/9 – c. 1460), or Felix Malleolus in Latin, was a Swiss Roman Catholic cleric, author, church official and advocate of church reform.

Hemmerline held several church offices in Switzerland, including as chorister in Zofingen (1412–54) and in the Grossmünster Church in Zurich (1429-1454), as a provost at Solothurn (1421-1455), and as a contributor to the Council of Basel, identified with the Church reform party.

Life Educated at the school of the collegiate church of his native town of Zurich, Hemmerlin then entered the University of Erfurt. From there, in 1408 he went to the University of Bologna, where he studied law for four years.

After Zurich's concessions and return to alliance with the other Swiss, Hemmerlin was imprisoned and deprived of his offices.