Joseph Rebbert

Joseph Rebbert (born May 19, 1837 in Winterberg , † July 13, 1897 in Paderborn ) was a German Catholic priest. By publishing numerous anti-Jewish inflammatory pamphlets, he promoted anti-Semitism .

Life

Joseph Rebbert was born in Winterberg in 1837. His parents were the road supervisor and farmer Jacob Rebbert and his wife Maria Catharina, née Lange. He attended schools in Brilon and Münstereifel . He studied theology in Bonn , Cologne and Paderborn , in order to obtain a doctorate in theology in Würzburg in 1871 .

He was ordained a priest on August 17, 1860 in Paderborn, from October 10, 1865, he was president of the boys' seminary in Paderborn, then from 1887 he was professor of New Testament exegesis and finally received the title of “Papal Secret Chamberlain”.

He used the Bonifacius printing house, which he co-founded, to distribute his writings. In 1878 he founded the Sunday paper "Leo" (today: Der Dom ) and ran it until his death. In it, among other things, he campaigned for donations to support destitute theology students. From 1874 to 1876 he was editor of the "Blätter für ecclesiastical science and practice". He was a staunch supporter of the Pope's infallibility . With the new edition of a book published by Bishop Konrad Martin "Views in Talmudic Judaism" in 1876 with falsified quotations from the Talmud, he contributed to the spread of anti-Semitism. He violently attacked the publications of the Protestant pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Thümmel in 1887 with a brochure published in Paderborn.

Fonts

• Biographies
  • Anna Katharina Emmerich and Luise Latreau . Paderborn, 1878.
  • Pope Leo XIII. Paderborn, 1878.
  • Confessing Bishop Konrad Martin . Paderborn, 1879. ( ULB Münster )
  • Clemens August of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne . Paderborn, 1873, (special print from: Bonifacius brochure, year 1873, No. 5 and 6).
• Writings on the papacy and infallibility
• Writings against Old Catholics and Protestants
• Inflammatory pamphlets against the Jews:
  • Look into Talmudic Judaism . Paderborn, 1876.
  • Protection of Christians, not hunting down Jews . Paderborn, 1876. ( ULB Münster )
• Polemical writings against individuals

literature

• Hannelore Noack: Unteachable? Anti-Jewish agitation with distorted Talmudic quotations. Anti-Semitic incitement by demonizing the Jews . University Press, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-935023-99-5 , (Partly at the same time: Paderborn, Univ., Diss., 1999: Anti-Judaism in one of its manifestations. Disfigured Talmudic quotations from the years 1848-1932 for the purpose of inciting and inciting the Masses of the German and Austrian people against Jews and Judaism ).
• Gunnar Anger:  Rebbert, Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1133-1137.
• Matthias Blum : Rebbert, Joseph , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, p. 674f.