Author: Ludwig Lavater
Alternate names: Lavater, Ludwig; L Lavater; L. Lavater; Lewes Lavater; Lewes Lauaterus; Lewes Lauaterus of Tigurine; L Lavatero; L. Lavatero; Ludovico Lavatero; Ludouico Lauatero; Ludwig Lauater; L Lavateri; L. Lavateri; L Lavateri Tigurini; L. Lavateri Tigurini; Ludouici Lauateri; Ludouicum Lauaterum; Ludouicum Lauaterum Tigurinum; Ludovicus Lavatervs; Ludovicus Lavatervs Tigurinus; Ludovicus Lavatervs Tigurinus Theol.
Born: 4 March 1527
Died: 5 July 1586
Bio: **Ludwig Lavater** (b. 4 March 1527; Kyburg (castle) – d. 5 July 1586 in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian working in the circle of his father-in-law, Heinrich Bullinger. He served as Archdeacon at the Grossmünster in Zurich and briefly Antistes of the Zurich church as the successor of Rudolf Gwalther.

Lavater was a prolific author, composing homilies, commentaries, a survey of the liturgical practices of the Zurich church, a history of the Lord's Supper controversy, as well as biographies of Bullinger and Konrad Pellikan. His work on ghosts (*De spectris* ...) was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian.