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Wagenseil

(135 words)

Author(s): Blastenbrei, Peter
[English Version] Wagenseil, Johann Christoph (26.11.1633 Nürnberg – 9.10.1705 Altdorf). Studium in Altdorf, 1665 Dr. phil., 1668 Prof. ebd. (Gesch., Jura, Orientalische Sprachen). Zahlreiche Erstübers. aus dem Talmud, Entdecker des Jiddischen. Kontakte zu jüd. Gelehrten ab 1654 führten ihn zur Kritik an der Lage der Juden. W. wies ab 1693 den Ritualmordvorwurf zurück, entwarf ab 1703 ein Konzept des friedlichen Zusammenlebens von Juden und Christen durch rechtliche Abgrenzung, humane Behandlung der…

Wagenseil, Johann Christoph

(167 words)

Author(s): Blastenbrei, Peter
[German Version] (Nov 26, 1633, Nuremberg – Oct 9, 1705, Altdorf) received his Dr.phil. from Altdorf in 1665 and was appointed professor of history, law, and Near Eastern languages there in 1668. He published many pioneering translations from the Talmud and discovered Yiddish. After 1654 his contacts with Jewish scholars led him to criticize the status of the Jews. After 1693 he dismissed the charge that Jews engaged in ritual murder. In 1703 he began to sketch a design for peaceful coexistence of…