Adam Tanner (Jesuit theologian)

Adam Tanner (in Latin, Tannerus; April 14, 1572 – May 25, 1632) was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.

[1] He was noted for his defense of the Catholic church and their practices against Lutheran reformers, as well as the Utraquists.

During his time in Bavaria, he witnessed contemporary debates in which the skeptics had some success imposing limits on the witch trials.

[2] These arguments were subsequently influential on his fellow Jesuit Friedrich Spee, another opponent of the witch hunts.

Apparently, the parishioners refused to give him a Christian burial because a "hairy little imp" was found on a glass plate among his possessions.