Category
page 1Demonologists

Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

James VI and I
James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states ruled by James in personal union, with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws.

Jean Bodin
French jurist, witchcraft theorist and political philosopher (1529 or 1530–1596)

Ed and Lorraine Warren
Edward Warren Miney and Lorraine Rita Warren were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, lecturer and artist. Lorraine professed to be clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband.
Cotton Mather
American religious minister and scientific writer (1663–1728)
Richard Baxter
English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Friedrich Spee
Jesuit, author of Cautio Criminalis
Johann Weyer
Dutch physician (1515-1588)
Heinrich Kramer
German churchman, inquisitor and withcraft theorist (c. 1430–c. 1505)
Jean Fernel
French physician (*1497 – †1558)

Thomas Erastus
Swiss Calvinist theologian and physician
Joseph Glanvill
Member of the Royal Society
Jacques Collin de Plancy
French occultist, demonologist and writer (1794–1881)
Balthasar Bekker
Dutch minister and author
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg
Swiss priest (1445–1510)
Nicholas Remy
French judge
Antoine Augustin Calmet
French Benedictine monk (1672–1757)
William Perkins
English cleric and Puritan theologian
Pierre de Lancre
French judge, witchcraft theorist and witch hunter (1553–1631)
Daniil Andreyev
Russian writer, poet, mystic (1906–1959)
Peter Binsfeld
German Catholic bishop and theologian
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola
Italian philosopher (1469–1533)
Reginald Scot
English politician and author (c.1537–1599)
Ludwig Lavater
Swiss theologian

Francesco Maria Guazzo
Italian monk (ca 1570–1640)
José Antonio Fortea
Spanish priest
Martin Delrio
Belgian theologian
Lambert Daneau
French theologian
Johannes Nider
German theologian
Niels Hemmingsen
Danish theologian
Henry Boguet
French jurist
Johann Georg Gödelmann
German jurist (1559-1611)
Edward Fairfax
English translator

Pedro Gómez Valderrama
Colombian writer, politician and diplomat (1923–1992)