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Behaim, Albert von (known also as Albertds came to an end in 1253. From that time he lived in BoHEMUs); b. 0. 1180, probably at Boheiming, in the Passau, where he had been dean of the chapter since Diocese of Passau; d. at Passau, 1260; a partisan of 1246. He laboured with zeal and credit to himself, the popes in their struggle with the Emperor Fred- but not ^\-itliout many conflicts, untU his death. He erick II (1215-50). In 1205 he went to Rome, where left two diaries, known as the first and second Mis- he was employed at the papal court as an expert in sivbtich. P'ragments of the first were edited by Oe- law. In 1237 he went to Germany, and through his fele, in "Rerum Boicarum Scriptores", vol. I; the efforts a league was formed against Frederick II be- second by Hofler in "Bibliothek des litterarischen tween Otto of Bavaria, Wenceslaus of Bohemia, and Vereins" (Stuttgart, 1847).

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Frederick of Austria. When excommunication was pronounced against the emperor in 1239, Behaim was made a permanent delegate and commissionea to make the sentence effective. For that purpose he ap- pealed to the bishops of Germany (1240), and when they proved themselves negligent he excommunicated a number of ecclesiastics and lajTiien of prominence. At the same time, he worked for the election of a new king. However, his excessive severity had no effect, and he was forced to leave the country. In 1245 he was at the Council of Lyons, where Frederick was again excommunicated, and he worked as before against the emperor. His office of papal delegate

Lerchenfeld-Aham, Albert Behaim (Munich, 1874); Rat- ziNGER, Atbertua Bohemus in Histonsch-politieche Blatter (Munich. 1869, 1879, 1880); Hefele, Conciliengesch. (Frei- biu-g, 1886), V; Hauck, Kirchengesch. Deutschl. (Leipzig, 1903), IV; Seidl in Kirchenlex. (Freiburg, 1886), 1, 411; Hurter, Nomendator, IV.

Francis J. Schaefer.

Behaim, M.vetin (Martinus de Boheiiia), a German cartographer and navigator, b. at Nurem- berg in 1459; d. at the German hospice of St. Bar- tholomew in Lisbon, Portugal, 29 July, 1507. Be- haim came from a wealthy merchant family which settled in Nuremberg about 1300 and which is still in existence. He received the usual education but,