Montague Summers

Writer, Author

1880 – 1948

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Who was Montague Summers?

Augustus Montague Summers was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.

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Born
Apr 10, 1880
Bristol
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Oxford
  • Clifton College
Died
Aug 10, 1948
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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