Education
He studied at the University of Wittenberg 1537 to 1542 under Melanchthon.
theologian university professor
He studied at the University of Wittenberg 1537 to 1542 under Melanchthon.
Returning to Denmark, he became a prolific author of works in Latin. Not all witches had pacts with the devil. He wrote that most of the Devil"s power came through illusions and that witches only did physically impossible things in dreams, like flying on brooms.
Similarly, he found drowning tests unreliable since they relied on superstition that the Devil could manipulate.