Albert Behaim

Albert Behaim (also called Albertus Bohemus in Latin; * around 1190/1195 (in older literature: around 1180); † probably 1260) was a Passau canon , cathedral dean and envoy of the Pope. He became known as a fanatical opponent of Emperor Frederick II.

Born perhaps in Böhaming , nothing is known about his origins. What is certain is that his name was Albert, even the nickname Bohemus is not certain.

Perhaps in 1212 Albert became a canon in Passau, later also archdeacon von Lorch . In 1237 or 1238 Pope Gregory IX sent him . as legates to Bavaria . Although he had to flee, he was sent back to Bavaria in 1239 to agitate against the emperor. In 1240 the papal commissioner excommunicated the archbishop of Salzburg , who was loyal to the emperor . He had to flee again, now to Pope Innocent IV in Lyon . In 1245 he was appointed cathedral dean of Passau, but in 1247 he was forced to flee for the third time. In 1250, after a first unsuccessful attempt, he succeeded in appointing a bishop loyal to the Pope in Passau.

His original letter and memorial book on paper, the oldest paper manuscript in a German library ( Clm 2574b ), is kept by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ; only excerpts by Johannes Aventine are available from a second volume . While the letter and memorial book has been available in an exemplary new edition by Thomas Frenz and Peter Herde since 2000 , the Aventine excerpts are still dependent on the old, unreliable edition by Constantin von Höfler in 1849 or on the first edition reprinted by Höfler by Andreas Felix von Oefele 1763.

expenditure

• Thomas Frenz, Peter Herde: The letter and memorial book of Albert Behaim (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Epistolae. Letters of the later Middle Ages, 1) Munich 2000. ISBN 3886120910 ( digitized version )

literature

• Josef Oswald:  Behaim v. Behaiming, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 1 ( digitized version ).
• Eduard Winkelmann :  Albert Behaim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 208 f.
• Peter Herd: Albert Behaim (Latin Bohemus) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 288 approx. 1180/90 as date of birth.
• Johann Englberger: Albert Behaim and the Lorcher tradition in Passau historiography. The Descriptio diversarum nationum Europe (= MGH . Schriften. Volume 57). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-7752-5757-2 .

Web links

• Albert Behaim in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Overview of works and editions, PDF p. 35 (2.20 MB)
• The cathedral dean Albert Behaim - a "Passau Patriot" of the 13th century. Lecture by Thomas Frenz, Passau 1996
• Lecture by Thomas Frenz, December 2000 in Würzburg ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Page by Thomas Frenz on the letter and memorial book ( Memento from March 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Edition by Höfler
• Edition of Oefele