E. (Edmond) Teinturier

Edmond Teinturier (1839–1902) is a little-documented French writer and physician. The clearest references I found identify him as a médecin aliéniste—a doctor working in the early field of psychiatry—and as the co-author of Le sabbat des sorciers.

That book, written with Désiré-Magloire Bourneville and published in the 1880s, revisits old accounts of witchcraft and the witches’ sabbath. Rather than treating those stories as proof of the supernatural, it approaches them as historical and medical material, which gives Teinturier’s work a distinctive mix of scholarship, skepticism, and fascination with folklore.

Very little biographical detail seems to be readily available online beyond his dates and his professional identity, so his public reputation rests largely on this unusual collaboration. Even so, Le sabbat des sorciers suggests an author interested in how fear, belief, and mental disturbance were understood in his time.