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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...
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    the Malleus Maleficarum, Friedrich Spee attributes authorship of the book to "Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer." Though Spee was Jesuit (not Dominican)...
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  • Spee is the family name of: Bibian Mentel (née Spee, 1972–2021), Dutch snowboarder Friedrich Spee (Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld) (1591–1635), German...
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    be found, and there is no little search being made for it. A Jesuit, Friedrich Spee, was more radically converted by his experience as a confessor of witches...
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    Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
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    and Costanzo Porta. A hymn written by the German poet and hymnodist Friedrich Spee in 1621, "Unüberwindlich starker Held" ("Invincible strong hero"), also...
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    if rarely, use the term sabbatha, Friedrich Spee does not ever use words derived from sabbatha or synagoga. Spee was German-speaking, and like his contemporaries...
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    Of the four ships of the Mackensen class, Mackensen, Graf Spee, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich were launched, and Fürst Bismarck was not—but none were completed...
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    the tune of "Lasst uns erfreuen", a German Easter hymn published by Friedrich Spee in 1623 in his book Auserlesene Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng...
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    player Friedrich Spee (1591-1635), German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known as a forceful opponent of witch trials Friedrich Stieve (1884-1966)...
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    the phrase in the German legal tradition was documented in 1631 by Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. In Canadian law, the leading case establishing how to...
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    Bethlehem geboren" is a German Christmas carol. The text is attributed to Friedrich Spee and was first printed in the collection Geistlichen Psälterlein (Little...
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    that still exists is from 1625. The original 1623 hymnal was edited by Friedrich Spee, an influential Jesuit priest, professor, and polemicist against witch-hunts...
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    the torture until you confess, my friends?" One of the Jesuits was Friedrich Spee, who thanked God he had been led to this insight by a friend, not an...
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    Anton Praetorius (1560–1613), Alonso Salazar y Frías (1564–1636), Friedrich Spee (1591–1635), and Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698). Among the largest and...
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    for the Christmas carol "Zu Bethlehem geboren" (1638) to a text by Friedrich Spee. A sandman is a mythical figure in German and other European folk tales...
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  • 1614) 1543 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, Emir of Bitlis (d. 1603) 1591 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and author (d. 1635) 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (d...
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  • texts, partly from the works of Friedrich Spee Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe ("Belief, Hope, Love"), 1662, after Friedrich Spee Heribert Sturm: Biographisches...
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    magic Torture of witches Discoverie of Witchcraft Salem witch trials Friedrich Spee Daemonologie, a witchcraft-related tract written by King James VI of...
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    Friedrich Spee, Priester, Mahner und Poet (1591-1635): eine Ausstellung der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich-Spee-Gesellschaft...
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    2020. Engelbert Goller, Jakob Henot, Inaugural-Dissertation, Bonn 1910 Friedrich Wilhelm Siebel, Die Hexenverfolgung in Köln, Juristische Dissertation...
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    Friedrich Spee, Priester, Mahner und Poet (1591-1635): eine Ausstellung der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich-Spee-Gesellschaft...
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    the Catholic hymns of Angelus Silesius, Johann Georg Seidenbusch, and Friedrich Spee. During the French Wars of Religion, both Catholic and Huguenot poets...
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    schon". The carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt" was written by Friedrich Spee in 1622 to an older melody, a lullaby singing "of Jesus and Mary", and...
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  • Philipp Nicolai 16th century "Zu Bethlehem geboren" ("Born in Bethlehem") Friedrich Spee / French melody 1638 Sind die Lichter angezündet Erika Engel / Hans...
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    These arguments were subsequently influential on his fellow Jesuit Friedrich Spee, another opponent of the witch hunts. He died at the village of Unken...
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    Klaus Wälde (economics) Alumni of the old University include theologian Friedrich Spee as well as Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich, who studied law...
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    forming a de facto enclave within the Duchy of Jülich-Berg. In 1591, Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld was born in Kaiserswerth. Due to its strategic position...
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    witchcraft existed. Among them were Johann Weyer, Reginald Scot, and Friedrich Spee. The Jura Mountains in southern Germany provided a small respite from...
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  • Cautio Criminalis (Precautions for Prosecutors) which was written by Friedrich Spee, in 1631.: vii  As a Jesuit priest, he personally witnessed witch trials...
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