ALBERTO di BEHAIMB (also called Bohemus). – An energetic partisan of the papacy against the German emperors and an active supporter of monastic reform. Originally (c. 1180) from the Behaimb family (Bavaria), he was a lawyer in the Roman Curia (1210) and at Lyon (1244), canon of Passau (1212), and archdeacon of Lorch (1226). He served as papal arbiter between Duke Ottone of Bavaria and the bishop of Freising (1237), and as executor (1239) of the bull of excommunication against Frederick II. Ordained a priest (1244) and appointed dean of the cathedral of Passau, he retired there in 1250 and died there in 1260.
BIBL.: G. Allman, s. V. in DIIG, I, cols. 1491–92.
Giuseppe Löw