- First name
- Balthasar
- Last name
- Bekker
- Date of Birth
- 1634
- Date of Death
- 1698
- Born in
- Metslawier
- Died in
- Amsterdam
Balthasar Bekker was a Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works. Opposing superstition, he was a key figure in the end of the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe. His best known work is De Betoverde Weereld (1691), or The World Bewitched (1695).