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Konrad of Megenberg

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Regensburg, Bavaria

The German Cleric Who Wrote a Medical Defence of the Jews During the Black Death Pogroms

Konrad of Megenberg was a Regensburg canon and natural-philosophy writer who composed a tract in 1350 explicitly refuting the claim that Jews had caused the Black Death by poisoning wells. He used Aristotelian-medical argument against the popular conspiracy theory that had been justifying the Rhineland pogroms.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Regensburg, Bavaria

The 14th-Century German Cleric Who Argued the Black Death Was Not the Jews' Fault

Konrad of Megenberg was a Bavarian cleric and natural philosopher who wrote a Latin treatise during the 1349 Black Death arguing on medical and theological grounds that the well-poisoning accusations against European Jews were factually false. The treatise circulated in fewer than two dozen manuscript copies and had substantially no documented effect on the simultaneous massacres.

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