- First name
- Gottlieb
- Last name
- Spizel
- Date of Birth
- 1639
- Date of Death
- 1691
- Born in
- Augsburg
- Died in
- Augsburg
Gottlieb Spizel studied theology and philosophy (from 1653 onwards) in Leipzig. He was minister of the Church of St James in Augsburg. He was a prolific writer, fervent book collector, and vast correspondence with people like Athanasius Kircher, Leibniz and Von Boineburg. Spizel, who briefly commented on TTP in Felix literatus ex infelicium periculis et casibus (1676), became especially notorious for a work advocating the persecution of witches, wizzards and atheists: Die gebrochene Macht der Finsternüss oder zerstörte teuflische Bunds- und Buhlfreundschaft mit den Menschen, …, Augsburg, 1687. See: Jaumann, 2000, p. 630; Feil, 2001, pp. 67–8.