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Bamberg Witch Trials
The Bamberg witch trials of 1627–1632, which took place in the self-governing Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg in the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Germany, is one of the biggest mass trials and mass executions ever seen in Europe, and one of the biggest witch trials in history. Over an extended period around 1,000 people were executed after being accused of witchcraft in Bamberg, about 900 of whom were executed in 1626–1632. People of all ages, sexes and classes, all of whom were burned at the stake, sometimes after having been beheaded, sometimes alive. The witch trials took place during the ongoing religious Thirty Years' War between Protestants and Catholics, in an area on the religious border between Catholic and Protestant territories, and were conducted by a Catholic Prince Bishop intent on introducing the Counter-Reformation in his territory. The Bamberg witch trials are among the largest Witch trials in the Early Modern period: it was one of the four large ...
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Prager (variants: Praeger, Preger) is a surname, which may refer to: Prager * David Prager (born 1977), American TV producer and blogger * Dennis Prager (born 1948), U.S. conservative radio talk show host, columnist and public speaker ** PragerU, a right-wing conservative non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic and philosophical topics * Joshua P. Prager (born 1949), US physician * Joshua Harris Prager, US journalist * Mark Prager Lindo (1819–1879), Anglo-Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent * Richard Prager (1883–1945), German-American astronomer * Richard Prager (skier), West German para-alpine skier * Susan Westerberg Prager (born 1942), Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and executive director from 2008 * Walter Prager (1910–1984), Swiss alpine skier * William Prager (1903–1980), German-born US physicist Fictional characters * Nick Prager, a character from '' Dead to Me'', portrayed by Brandon S ...
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Bamberger is a Bavarian and Southern German toponymic surname, and it indicates someone from Bamberg in Bavaria. Notable people with the surname include: * Ana Maria Bamberger (born 1966), Romanian physician and playwright * Ármin Vámbéry (born Bamberger) (1832–1913), Hungarian orientalist * Bernard Jacob Bamberger (1904–1980), American rabbi and Biblical scholar * Clarence Bamberger (1886–1984), American mining executive, politician and philanthropist * Cyril Stanley Bamberger (1919–2008), Battle of Britain pilot * Eugen Bamberger (1857–1932), German chemist * Eugen von Bamberger (1858–1921), Austrian internist * Florence E. Bamberger (1882–1965), American pedagogue * Fritz Bamberger (painter) (1814–1873), German painter * Fritz Bamberger (scholar) (1902–1984), German Jewish scholar * George Bamberger (1923–2004), American baseball player * Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888), Austrian pathologist * Jakob Bamberger (1913–1989), German boxer and P ...
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Georg Haan
Georg Haan (died 14 July 1628) was a prominent victim of the Bamberg witch trials. Georg Haan was a doctor and member of the city council of Bamberg. He was married to Katharina Haan and had two daughters, Katharina and Ursula, and four sons named Adam, Carl, Daniel and Leonhard. Haan was among the most well known secular personalities in Bamberg. He publicly opposed the policy of witch persecution by prince Bishop Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim, and in 1627, he sued the Prince Bishop before the Imperial Diet in Speyer. Haan departed for Speyer on 27 December. Shortly after his departure, his wife was arrested for witchcraft after having been pointed out by, among others, Hans Morhaubt, the son of Christina Morhaubt (who herself was burnt alive in August 1627). Katharina Haan was tortured until she confessed and was burnt alive after 16 January 1628. Shortly after, her daughter and namesake was swiftly arrested, tortured, sentenced and burned. When Georg Haan returned to Bambe ...
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Johann Philipp Von Gebsattel
Johann Philipp von Gebsattel (13 May 1555 – 26 June 1609) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1599 to 1609. Biography Johann Philipp von Gebsattel was born on 13 May 1555. He was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on 4 February 1599, with Pope Clement VIII confirming his appointment on 19 July 1599. He was never consecrated as a bishop and remained a deacon at the time of his death. He died on 26 June 1609, aged 54, and is buried in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg Michaelsberg Abbey or Michelsberg Abbey, also St. Michael's Abbey, Bamberg ( or ''Michelsberg'') is a former Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine monastery in Bamberg in Bavaria, Germany. After its dissolution in 1803 the buildings were used fo .... The abbey was dissolved in 1803. Article on German Wikipedia See also References 1555 births 1609 deaths Prince-bishops of Bamberg {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub ...
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Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism. It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe. The Reformation is usually dated from Martin Luther's publication of the ''Ninety-five Theses'' in 1517, which gave birth to Lutheranism. Prior to Martin Luther and other Protestant Reformers, there were Proto-Protestantism, earlier reform movements within Western Christianity. The end of the Reformation era is disputed among modern scholars. In general, the Reformers argued that justification (theology), justification was sola fide, based on faith in Jesus alone and n ...
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Neytard Von Thüngen
Neytard von Thüngen (1 May 1545 – 26 December 1598) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1591 to 1598. Biography Neytard von Thüngen was born in Wüstensachsen (today a district of Ehrenberg, Hesse) on 1 May 1545.Profile
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He was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on December 14, 1591, and confirmed his appointment on 6 June 1593. He was as a

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Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. It was not a true ice age of global extent. The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939. Matthes described glaciers in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of California that he believed could not have survived the hypsithermal; his usage of "Little Ice Age" has been superseded by "Neoglaciation". The period has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, (noted in Grove 2004: 4). but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 to about 1850. The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals. One began about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, all of which were separated by intervals of slight warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Third Assessment Report, Third Assessment Report considered that the timing and the areas affecte ...
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Würzburg Witch Trials
The Würzburg witch trials of 1625–1631, which took place in the self-governing Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Germany, formed one of the biggest mass trials and mass executions ever seen in Europe, and one of the largest witch trials in history. The trials resulted in the execution of hundreds of people of all ages, sexes and classes, all of whom were burned at the stake, sometimes after having been beheaded, sometimes alive. One hundred fifty-seven women, children and men in the city of Würzburg are confirmed to have been executed; 219 are estimated to have been executed in the city proper, and an estimated 900 were executed or died in custody in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, Prince-Bishopric. The witch trials took place during the ongoing religious Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics, in an area on the religious border between Catholic and Protestant territories, and were conducted by a Catholic Prince Bisho ...
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Fulda Witch Trials
The Witch trials of Fulda in Germany from 1603 to 1606 resulted in the death of about 250 people. They were one of the four largest witch trials in Germany, along with the Trier witch trials, the Würzburg witch trial, and the Bamberg witch trials.Midelfort, H. C. Erik (1972). Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0805-0. Chapter 6, note 101. "Generally in Germany the largest witch hunts occurred at Trier, Bamberg, Fulda, and Würzberg, all ecclesiastical atholiclands." The persecutions were ordered by the Catholic Prince Bishop, a follower of the Counter-Reformation. Crypto-protestants were executed on charges of witchcraft.Stuart Clark, William Monter, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4: The Period of the Witch Trials' History The witch trials were ordered by Prince-abbot Balthasar von Dernbach, who had been exiled by the Lutherans in 1576 after his Counter-Reformation ...
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Trier Witch Trials
The Witch Trials of Trier took place in the independent Catholic diocese of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire in present day Germany between 1581 and 1593, and were perhaps the largest documented witch trial in history in view of the executions. They formed one of the four largest witch trials in Germany alongside the Fulda witch trials, the Würzburg witch trial, and the Bamberg witch trials. The persecutions started in the diocese of Trier in 1581 and reached the city itself in 1587, where they were to lead to the death of about 368 people - possibly the largest mass execution in Europe in peacetime. The number counts only those executed within the city itself, and the true number of executed people, counting everyone executed in all witch hunts within the whole diocese, was therefore even larger. The exact number of executions has never been established; a total of 1000 has been suggested but not confirmed. The witch trials In 1581, Johann von Schönenberg was appo ...
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War, and the Portuguese Restoration War. The war had its origins in the 16th-century Reformation, which led to religious conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg attempted to resolve this by dividing the Empire into Catholic and Lutheran states, but the settlement was destabilised by the subsequent expansion of Protestantism beyond these boundaries. Combined with differences over the limits of imperial authority, religion was thus an important factor in star ...
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ...
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