Johann Reuchlin

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Johann Reuchlin was a German humanist scholar and pioneering Christian Hebraist whose defense of Jewish writings and engagement with Kabbalah made him a central figure of the Northern Renaissance.

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Johann Reuchlin canonical 5
Johannes Reuchlin 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian Hebraist
German jurist
Renaissance philosopher
humanist scholar
theologian
university teacher
alternateName Capnion
Johann Reuchlin
surface form: Johannes Reuchlin
birthDate 1455-02-22
birthName Johann Reuchlin self-link
birthPlace Margraviate of Baden
Pforzheim
countryOfCitizenship Holy Roman Empire
deathDate 1522-06-30
deathPlace Ingolstadt
educatedAt University of Basel
Freiburg University
surface form: University of Freiburg

Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris

University of Tübingen
ethnicGroup German
fieldOfWork Hebrew studies
Kabbalah
canon law
classical philology
theology
genre Christian Kabbalah
Hebrew grammar
apologetics
influenced Desiderius Erasmus
Philip Melanchthon
surface form: Philipp Melanchthon
influencedBy Renaissance humanism
surface form: Italian Renaissance humanism
knownFor Disputation of Paris
surface form: Reuchlin–Pfefferkorn controversy

defense of Jewish books
engagement with Kabbalah
pioneering Christian Hebraism
languageOfWorkOrName German
Latin
movement Christian humanism
Northern Renaissance
notableWork Augenspiegel
De arte cabalistica
De verbo mirifico
Rudimenta Hebraica
occupation jurist
philologist
professor
theologian
participantIn Reuchlin–Pfefferkorn affair
positionHeld councillor to the Duke of Württemberg
professor at the University of Ingolstadt
religion Roman Catholicism

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Christian Kabbalah hasNotableProponent Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin birthName Johann Reuchlin self-link
Johann Reuchlin alternateName Johann Reuchlin
this entity surface form: Johannes Reuchlin
De verbo mirifico author Johann Reuchlin
De verbo mirifico traditionalAttribution Johann Reuchlin
De arte cabalistica author Johann Reuchlin
this entity surface form: Johannes Reuchlin