Johann Weyer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Johannes Wier a.k.a. Johan Weyer, in Latin Ioannes Wierus and Piscinarius, (c. 1515, Grave - February 24, 1588) was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches. His most influential work is De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis (On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, 1563). Wier was born in a small town in the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands. His father was a merchant of hops. He attended the Latin schools in 's-Hertogenbosch and Leuven and when he was about 14 years of age, he became a live-in student of Agrippa, in Antwerp. Agrippa had to leave Antwerp in 1532 and he and his student then settled in Bonn, under the protection of prince-bishop Hermann von Wied. After completing a work on demons in 1533, Agrippa died in 1535, during a trip to France.