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Johannes Pfefferkorn (original given name Joseph; 1469, Nuremberg – Oktober 22, 1521, Cologne) was a German Catholic theologian and writer who converted from Judaism. Pfefferkorn actively preached against the Jews and attempted to destroy copies of the Talmud, and engaged in a long running pamphleteering battle with humanist Johann ...
Johannes Pfefferkorn (born 1469, Nürnberg?—died 1522/23, Cologne) was a German controversialist—a Christianized Jew—and opponent of Jewish literature, whose dispute with the Humanist and Hebraist Johannes Reuchlin (q.v.) was a European cause célèbre in the early 16th century.
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Johannes Pfefferkorn was an apostate and anti-Jewish agitator. Originally from Moravia, Pfefferkorn claimed to have been educated by a relative, Meir Pfefferkorn, a dayyan in Prague. A butcher by profession, he was convicted of burglary and theft, but released on payment of a fine.
Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469 – 1523) was a German-Jewish convert to Catholicism who became a famous anti-Jewish polemicist. After associating himself with the Dominicans in the early 1500s, Pfefferkorn condemned Jewish religious tradition as intolerably anti-Christian.
Published in 1516, Poul Ræff's Iudeorum Secreta, a translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn's The Conlession of the Jews, was a landmark in the development of anti-Jewish polemics in Denmark. For the first time, Danes were presented with descriptions of Jewish ceremonies that aimed to portray these practices as dangerously anti-Christian ...
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Overview. Johannes Pfefferkorn. (c. 1469—1522) Quick Reference. (1468/9–1522), German religious controversialist. He was raised as a Jew but converted to Catholicism in about 1504; after his baptism he secured the patronage of the Dominicans of Cologne, who ... From: Pfefferkorn, Johannes in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »
3 de nov. de 2010 · Johannes Pfefferkorn probably endured more barrages of anti-Semitic hate speech than any other person in the Renaissance. According to his foes, he was an ignorant, corrupt, criminal, even stinking Jewish butcher.
