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Friedrich Spee

1591 - 1635

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Friedrich Spee (also Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld; February 25, 1591 – August 7, 1635) was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known as a forceful opponent of witch trials and one who was an insider writing from the epicenter of the European witch-phobia. Spee argued strongly against the use of torture, and as an eyewitness he gathered a book full of details regarding its cruelty and unreliability. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Spee is the 2,614th most popular writer (down from 2,576th in 2019), the 2,783rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,727th in 2019) and the 169th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Friedrich Spee ranks 2,614 out of 7,302. Before him are D. B. Weiss, Polemon I of Pontus, Giulio Angioni, Michael Grant, Thomas Percy, and Rosario Castellanos. After him are Mariana Alcoforado, George Adamski, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Georges Ohnet, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Guillaume Tirel.

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Among people born in 1591, Friedrich Spee ranks 16. Before him are Valentin de Boulogne, Isabella of Savoy, Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Olimpia Maidalchini, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, and Andrew Bobola. After him are Dirck Hals, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Johann von Werth, George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Anne Hutchinson, and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. Among people deceased in 1635, Friedrich Spee ranks 10. Before him are Jacques Callot, Şehzade Bayezid, Zacharias Janssen, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Reza Abbasi, and Elisabeth of Lorraine. After him are Joos de Momper, Fakhr al-Din II, Alessandro Tassoni, Domenico Tintoretto, Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen, and Johann Faulhaber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Spee ranks 2,784 out of 7,253. Before him are Oskar von Hutier (1857), Conrad Graf (1782), Gerd Albrecht (1935), Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684), Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (1680), and Johann Peter Frank (1745). After him are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901), Walter Heitler (1904), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Alfred Wünnenberg (1891), and Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (1652).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Spee ranks 169. Before him are Picander (1700), Charlotte Buff (1753), Joseph Görres (1776), Matthias Claudius (1740), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), and Cornelia Funke (1958). After him are Martin Walser (1927), Udo Lindenberg (1946), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Heinz G. Konsalik (1921), Johann Froben (1460), and Dorothea von Schlegel (1764).

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