Anton Margaritha
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Anton Margaritha [1] (born ca. 1500) was a sixteenth century Jewish Hebraist and convert to Christianity. He was a possible source for some of Martin Luther's conception of Judaism. He is best known for the 1530 book Der Gantze Jüdische Glaube.[2][3] He had a public debate in the same year with Josel of Rosheim, in front of the Emperor Charles V and court at Augsburg.[4]
His father Jacob Margolioth was a rabbi in Ratisbon.[5] Anton converted in 1522, being baptized at Wasserburg, and later became a Lutheran.[6] Luther read Der Gantze Jüdische Glaube in 1539.[7]
The book was reprinted in 1705[8] and was cited in Synagoga Judaica by Johannes Buxtorf.[9]
He was a teacher of Hebrew at Augsburg, Meissen, Zell, Leipzig, and (from 1537 till his death) at the University of Vienna. He published the Psalms and Matthew 1:1 through 3:6, in Hebrew, in Leipzig (1533).
[edit] References (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article Margarita, Antonius)
- De le Roi, Die Evangelische Christenheit und die Juden, i. 221, Leipsic, 1884;
- A. Fürst, Christen und Juden, p. 191, Strasburg, 1892
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 330
- Geiger, Gesch. der Juden in Deutschland, ii. 324-325, v. 310-312
- Grätz, Gesch. ix. 190-191, 303-304, 314, note
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 6263
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i., No. 335
- G. Wolf, Studien zur Jubelfeier der Wiener Universität, pp. 28-29, Vienna, 1865
[edit] Notes
- ^ Antony Margaritha, Anthony Margaritha, Antonius Margarita, Antonius Margaritha
- ^ The Whole Jewish Faith.
- ^ The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia comments: The author ridicules Jewish ceremonies, accuses the Jews of usury and of sentiments hostile to Christians and Christianity, and argues against their Messianic hopes. He denounces the 'Alenu prayer as anti-Christian in tendency. Declaiming against the usury and idleness of the Jews, he appeals to the magistrates to remedy the evil and to force the Jews to perform manual labor. He charges the Jewish physicians with ignorance and greediness, and asserts that, despite their minuteness in ritual, the Jews are neither pious nor charitable, and that, notwithstanding their apparent aversion to proselytism, they are eager to gain adherents to their faith.This libelous book had a great influence upon Luther, who made use of it in writing his "Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen." It was praised by Hoornbeck, B. Lutberus, and Joseph Müller; but Wagenseil speaks of it less favorably.
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ (PDF): he suffered imprisonment and then expulsion from Augsburg, based on complaints from the Jewish community there and action by Charles V.
- ^ [3], p.18.
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- ^ [5]
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
