Konrad Martin
Konrad Martin ( born May 18, 1812 in Geismar, † July 16, 1879 in St. Guibert ) was from 1844 professor of theology at Bonn, 1869 Council theologian at the first Vatican Council, and from 1856 to 1875 Catholic bishop of Paderborn.
As Bishop Martin had until the beginning of the Prussian Kulturkampf good contacts with the Lutheran Church, but was violently attacked, arrested for violation of anti- ecclesiastical laws and discontinued in 1875. He therefore has the reputation of a Confessor Bishop.
Life
Konrad Martin was selected as the seventh of eight children of the couple Johann Martin and Regina, born Schuchardt was born. At 18, he left high school with an outstanding high school diploma and he afterwards studied in Hall oriental languages in Munich and Würzburg Catholic theology and was on 27 February 1836 in Cologne ordained a priest. He was rector of it Progymnasium in Wipperfuerth, then religion teacher at Catholic High School in Cologne and in 1844 professor of theology and inspector of the Seminary in Bonn. 1856 elected a bishop of Paderborn, he developed a tireless work to raise the ecclesial spirit, especially in the diaspora in Saxony and Thuringia, which were assigned to his diocese; he built a seminary in Paderborn, in Heiligenstadt, a minor seminary and caused the foundation of many new parishes and the construction of many Catholic churches in Protestant places.
In his writings an episcopal word to the Protestants of Germany ( 1864) and Second word, etc. (1866 ) he treated the Protestants of his diocese as his subordinates, and the conversion of Protestants to Catholicism and the Catholic baptism of children of mixed marriages was not from him operated without success; yes, he made also with orthodox Lutheran pastors in negotiations on their "return" to the Catholic Church. The arrival of the Jesuits was particularly favored by him.
In 1869 he was called to Rome to participate in the preparatory work for the First Vatican Council. At the same he was a member of the doctrinal congregation and zealous champion of infallibility, which he also defended a writer ( The work of the Vatican Council, 3rd edition, Paderborn 1873; Vaticano concilii documentorum collectio ). As broke out in Prussia the Kulturkampf, the Martin compared with the Diocletian persecution, he of course was one of the fiercest opponents of the government and offered the same through disobedience and brazen violation of the May Laws defiance. Finally condemned repeatedly to heavy fines to imprisonment in 1874 and sold in January 1875, he was interned in Wesel, where he however in the summer of 1875 fled to Belgium. He died there on July 16, 1879 and was buried in Paderborn. He was an honorary citizen of Brilon.
Martin was founded in 1869 champions of the dogma of infallibility. It runs a beatification process.
Anti-Judaism
In several treatises Martin continued in 1848 with the religious writings of Judaism, especially the Talmud, apart. The result is a strong anti-Jewish writing:
" The arrogance that the Judaism in the name of God impresses his confessors, almost bordering on madness and sufficiently explained all hatreds, which the Jew was guilty, in consultation with the non-Jews from time immemorial ... "
Martin claimed that Jews would swear to non-Jews Falscheide, and the Talmudic writings that usurious not only allow, but even recommend. Even the accusation of ritual murder can be found formulated therein. By Jewish scholars, these documents were reviewed, and they come consistently to the conclusion that Martin may not have dealt with the original texts, rather he relied inter alia on the anti-Jewish Dominican Raymond Martin of the 13th century. The translations of passages of the Talmud by Conrad Martin reported accordingly in a very significant anti-Jewish distortions.
These translations took in the aftermath repeated input in anti-Semitic writings. Martin's essay was published in 1876 by Joseph Rebbert again under the same title, published in the Bonifacius printing plant in Paderborn. Rebbert underpinned it with Martin's translations of August Rohling in the " Talmud Jew" widespread anti -Semitic quotes. Martin himself was primarily trying to convert Jews to Christianity. At the same time he turned vehemently against the emancipation of the Jews and the associated civil rights.
One of the most outspoken critics Konrad Martins of non-Jewish side was the lawyer Joseph Kolkmann.
Works
- Religious book for Higher educational institutions, 2 volumes; 1844
- Looks at Judaism 's Thalmud'sche, in: Catholic Quarterly of Art and Science, Bonn, New Series; 1848
- A bishop's word to the Protestants of Germany. 1861
- Three years of my life; 1877