Victor von Carben

A stone relief memorial, commemorating the converted rabbi Victor von Carben, showing Saint Anne and Saint Mary with Carben kneeling at Anne's feet, looking up at the Christ child, who holds a bunch of grapes out towards him. In Cologne Cathedral, carved ca. 1470.

Victor von Carben, or Victor of Carben (1422–1515) was a German rabbi of Cologne who converted to Catholicism and later became a priest.

Carben was involved in the Pfefferkorn controversy and was one of the four imperial commissioners appointed to examine Jewish books for blasphemy against Christianity, the others being Johannes Pfefferkorn, Johann Reuchlin, and Jacob van Hochstraten. His work, Judenbüchlein, published in Cologne in 1508 or 1509 described the conditions and customs of Jews with a view to aiding in their conversion to Christianity. He disputed with learned Jews before the Archbishop of Cologne at Bonn, and secured the expulsion of Jews from Brühl, Deutz, and other towns in the Diocese of Cologne.