Heinrich Kramer
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Lived 1430 to 1505 · aged 75
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Heinrich Kramer, also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institoris, was a German Dominican friar and inquisitor.
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Heinrich Kramer, also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institoris, was a German Dominican friar and inquisitor. With his widely distributed book Malleus Maleficarum (1487), which describes witchcraft and endorses detailed processes for the extermination of witches, he was instrumental in establishing the period of witch trials in the early modern period.
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Lived 1430 to 1505 · aged 75
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