Ludwig Lavater
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Ludwig Lavater (4 March 1527; Kyburg (castle) – 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 R ...
. He served as Archdeacon at the
Grossmünster The Grossmünster (; "great minster") is a Romanesque-style Protestant church in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation f ...
in Zurich and briefly
Antistes Antistes (from Latin ''ante'' "before" and ''sto'' "stand") was from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century the title of the head of a church in the Reformed Churches in Switzerland. It was the highest office in churches with synodal church gover ...
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 Konrad Pellikan. 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 ( VD 16 L 834).
''Von Gespänsten,'' in ''Theatrum de Veneficis''
Frankfurt, 1586.


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* * * * * 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 Post-Reformation Digital Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Lavater, Ludwig 1527 births 1586 deaths Demonologists 16th-century Swiss people 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians Carolinum, Zurich, faculty