{"name": "Balthasar Bekker", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Balthasar Bekker, Dutch divine and author of philosophical and theological works. Opposing superstition, he was a key figure in the end of the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe."}, "personal_name": "Bekker, Balthasar", "death_date": "11 June 1698", "photos": [6390464], "birth_date": "20 March 1634", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "34592037", "wikidata": "Q805597", "isni": "0000000114705253", "lc_naf": "n85196197", "opac_sbn": "BVEV072045"}, "key": "/authors/OL646947A", "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T00:47:26.884391"}}