Hermann Wilken (1522 in Neuenrade – 7 February 1603 in Heidelberg), also known as Hermann Witekind and with the pseudonym of Augustin Lercheimer, was a German humanist and mathematician.
[1] Originary of Neuenrade, in Westphalia, he studied in Frankfurt (Oder) (1545/46) and in Wittenberg (1547), where he was an alumn of Philipp Melanchthon.
In 1552 Wilken was recommended by him to teach at the Latin Cathedral School in Riga, becoming rector in 1554.
[1] In 1585 he published, under the pseudonym of Augustine Lercheimer, "Christlich bedenken und erinnerung von Zauberey"[1] (i.e.: Christian memory about witchcraft), his book against the persecution of witches.
Some witchcraft theorists, as Johann Georg Gödelmann and Anton Praetorius, were influenced by Wilken.