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In the last years of his life the author of the Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum), the Black (Dominican) friar Heinrich Kramer-Institoris held the office of papal inquisitor for the Bohemian (Czech) Lands. This period of his life is closely connected with his stay in the Olomouc diocese, specifically in the city of Olomouc (germ. Olmutz). Institoris was installed as inquisitor for the Bohemian Lands already in January 1499 by Pope Alexander VI, evidently at the instigation of the bishop of Olomouc Stanislav (Stanislaus) Thurzo. Institoris held the aforementioned office from 1499 until the end of his lifetime. The date of his death is traditionally quoted as the year 1505.

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  • In the last years of his life the author of the Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum), the Black (Dominican) friar Heinrich Kramer-Institoris held the office of papal inquisitor for the Bohemian (Czech) Lands

  • He interpreted his terms as inquisitor for the Bohemian Lands and his arrival to Olomouc as a reaction by Pope Alexander VI to the request presented by the new bishop of Olomouc Stanislav I Thurzo, who was involved as of his accession to the see of the bishopric in suppressing the Unity of Bohemian Brethren.[2]

  • In contrast to the participation in witch trials in the diocese of Konstanz in the first half of the 1480s or his activities in Innsbruck in 1485,219 the operations of Heinrich Institoris in Olomouc and if you like in the Olomouc diocese should be viewed as entirely negative

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In the last years of his life the author of the Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum), the Black (Dominican) friar Heinrich Kramer-Institoris held the office of papal inquisitor for the Bohemian (Czech) Lands.

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