Balthasar Bekker
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Bekker, Balthasar (20 March 1634 - 11 June 1698)
A Dutch rationalist, Bekker obtained a doctorate of divinity but was then accused of Socinianism. Fleeing to Amsterdam, he wrote World Bewitched (1691), a work in which witchcraft and the power of demons are denied. He was then deposed from his place in the Church.
Bekker was said by believers to have been ugly, even to have looked like the devil he did not believe in.
(See ten portraits of Bekker.)
