Peter Binsfeld

Peter Binsfeld (alternate spelling Peter of Binsfeld, lat. Petrus Binsfeldius; c. 1540 – 1598[1] or 1603)[2] was a German auxiliary bishop and theologian.

Peter, a son of a farmer and craftsman, was born in the village of Binsfeld in the rural Eifel region, located in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate; he died in Trier as a victim of the bubonic plague. Binsfeld grew up in the predominantly Catholic environment of the Eifel region.

  1. ^ Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia By William E. Burns, p.x, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
  2. ^ Compendium Maleficarum, vol 2, By Francesco Maria Guazzo, p. 86, Kessinger Publishing, 2003