Johannes Hinderbach

{{Short description|German catholic bishop}}{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| name = Johannes Hinderbach

| image = Castello del Buonconsiglio, sala vescovi - Fogolino - 32 Giovanni Hinderbach.jpg

| title = Prince-Bishop of Trent

| elected = 30 August 1465

| term_start = 12 May 1466

| term_end = 21 September 1486

| predecessor = Georg Hack von Themeswald

| successor = Ulrich von Frundsberg

| birth_date = 15 August 1418

| birth_place = Rauschenberg, Hesse

| death_date = 21 September 1486

| death_place = Trento

}}

Johannes Hinderbach (15 August 1418 – 21 September 1486) was Prince-Bishop of Trent{{cite book|author=R. Po-chia Hsia|title=Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0Bxvq9iaXkC&pg=PA5|date=1 September 1996|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-06872-6|page=5|quote='The most reverend and dignified Lord Johannes, by the Grace of God and the Apostolic See Bishop and Lord of Trent' was the fourth bishop by that name. Born on 14 August 1418, in the vicinity of Rauschenberg just outside Kassel in Hesse, Johannes Hinderbach belonged to the first generation of northern humanists.}} from 12 May 1466 until his death. He was by birth a member of the Austrian nobility.{{Cite journal|last=Kristeller|first=Paul Oskar|date=1993|title=The Alleged Ritual Murder of Simon of Trent (1475) and Its Literary Repercussions: A Bibliographical Study|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research|volume=59|pages=103–135|doi=10.2307/3622714|issn=0065-6798|jstor=3622714}} Prior to his appointment as Bishop, he served as an advisor to the court of Fredrick III.{{Cite journal|last=Israel|first=Uwe|date=January 2005|title=Reviewed Work: Dai margini la memoria. Johannes Hinderbach (1418-1486) by Daniela Rando|journal=The Catholic Historical Review|volume=91|issue=1|pages=158–160|jstor=25026802|doi=10.1353/cat.2005.0109|s2cid=159729584 }}

He was notable for his involvement in the case of Simon of Trent, a young boy who was found murdered in 1475; Hinderbach blamed the local Jews for his death (see blood libel), executed fifteen of them, and promoted Simon's canonisation as a saint.

The only remnant of Hinderbach's tomb is a still existing memorial slab, exhibited at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino.{{cite journal |last1=Obermair|first1=Hannes |last2=Schedl |first2=Michaela |name-list-style=amp |date=2018 |title=Art in the Double Periphery: Commissions ordered by the Bishops Johannes Hinderbach and Ulrich von Liechtenstein in Early Modern Trento |url=https://cma.gbv.de/dr,cma,021,2018,a,02.pdf |journal=Concilium Medii Aevi |volume=21 |issn=1437-904X |pages=53–73|access-date=December 13, 2018}}