Victor of Carbene

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Master of the von Carbenschen Memorial Foundation: Anna Selbdritt with the founder Victor von Carben, Cologne Cathedral

Victor von Carben , also von Karben (born 1422 ; died February 2, 1515 ) was a German rabbi who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and became a priest.

Life

In 1482 he converted and was ordained a priest. From 1486 he belonged to the theological faculty of the University of Cologne .

He was involved in the dispute over Johannes Pfefferkorn and was one of four imperial commissioners who were appointed to investigate Jewish writings for blasphemous statements against Christianity. The other commissioners were Johannes Pfefferkorn, Johann Reuchlin and Jakob van Hoogstraten . His work, the Judenbüchlein , published in Cologne in 1508 , describes the living conditions and customs of the Jews with regard to their conversion. He led the dispute with learned Jews before the Archbishop of Cologne in Bonn and supported the expulsion of Jews from Brühl , Deutz and other cities in the area, although like Pfefferkorn he tried to convince the Christians that the mistreatment of Jews did not lead to their change of faith contributions.

His epitaph with an inscription can be found in St. Ursula .

Victor von Carben donated a total of seven sandstone reliefs on pillars near the Marienkapelle in Cologne Cathedral . These are attributed to the so-called master of the von Carbene Memorial Foundation or Victor von Carben-Meister .

Fonts

  • Opus Aureum ac Novum in quo Omnes Judæorum Errores Manifestantur . Cologne 1509.
  • Propugnaculum Fidei Christianæ, Instar Dialogi inter Christianum et Judæum, in quo quod Jesus Verus Messias, Verus Deus et Homo, Totiusque Humani Generis Salvator Sit demonstration. Cologne 1504–1508.

literature

  • Carola Maria Werhahn: The foundation of Victor von Carben (1423–1515) in Cologne Cathedral. Propaganda of faith between Judaism and Christianity in text and images . utzverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8316-4196-3 .
  • Ludwig Geiger :  Karben, Victor von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 118.
  • Andrew Colin Gow: The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200–1600. Brill, Leiden 1995, ISBN 90-04-10255-8 , p. 133.
  • Maria Diemling: “Christian Ethnographies” on Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern Age: The converts Victor von Carben and Antonius Margaritha and their presentation of Jewish life and the Jewish religion . Dissertation. University of Vienna, 1999.
  • Carben (Karben), Victor von. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 4, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865932-9 , p. 460 (English).
  • Maria Diemling: The Jewish Body. Corporeality, society, and identity in the Renaissance and early modern period. Brill, Leiden 2008, pp. 162-230.
  • Carola Maria Werhahn: The foundation of Victor von Carben (1423–1515) in Cologne Cathedral. Propaganda of faith between Judaism and Christianity in text and images. Utz, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8316-4196-3 . (Table of contents and introduction; PDF; 125 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allison P. Coudert: Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999, ISBN 0-7923-5789-2 , p. 68.
  2. ↑ Anna Selbdritt with founder Victor v. Carbene. on the Cologne Cathedral website
personal data
SURNAME Carbene, Victor of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karben, Victor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi and convert
DATE OF BIRTH 1422
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1515