Ludwig Lavater (4 March 1527;

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– 5 July 1586 in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law,

Heinrich Bullinger Heinrich Bullinger (18 July 1504 – 17 September 1575) was a Swiss Reformer and theologian, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Church of Zürich and a pastor at the Grossmünster. One of the most important leaders of the Swiss Re ...

. He served as Archdeacon at the

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in Zurich and briefly

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of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther. Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and

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. His work on ghosts (''De spectris ...'') was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.Moeller, Katrin: Lavater, Ludwig. In: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung, hrsg. v. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller und Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in: historicum.net, URL: http://www.historicum.net/no_cache/persistent/artikel/5519/ Accessed April 8, 2010

Works

* ''De ritibus et institutis ecclesiae Tigurinae.'' 1559 (Modern edition: ''Die Gebräuche und Einrichtungen der Zürcher Kirche.'' Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1987.
''Historia de origine et progressu controversiae Sacramentariae de Coena Domini, ab anno nativitatis Christi MDXXIIII. usque ad annum MDLXIII.''
Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1563.
''De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus.''
Leiden, 1569.
''Von Gespänsten ..., kurtzer und einfaltiger bericht''
Zürich, 1569 (

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L 834).
''Von Gespänsten,'' in ''Theatrum de Veneficis''
Frankfurt, 1586.

References

External links

* * * * * Katrin Moeller
''Lavater, Ludwig.''
in ''Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung.'' ed. Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller and Jürgen-Michael Schmidt, in historicum.net

in the

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Works of Lavater
at the

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