HOOGSTRAATEN, JACOB°

HOOGSTRAATEN, JACOB° (1460–1527), papal inquisitor; a Dominican monk and professor of theology at Cologne University. Fanatically antagonistic toward humanism, he supported pfefferkorn in his controversy with reuchlin , charging the latter with heresy and conspiracy with the Jews. His attempt to bring a heresy suit against Reuchlin's tract Augenspiegel (Tuebingen, 1511) was quashed in 1514 and he was ordered by the tribunal appointed by the pope to pay the 111 gold ducats cost of the case. Though deposed from office by the Dominicans in 1516, he continued his activities in writing. When Reuchlin published De Arte Cabalistica (Hagenau, 1517) praising the Kabbalah, Hoogstraaten countered with Destructio Cabalae (Cologne, 1519) attacking the Kabbalah as anti-Christian and heretical. He was ridiculed by his enemies in Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1517). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Graetz, Hist, 4 (1949), 422ff.; Dubnow, Divrei, 6 (19582), 95–99.