author
E. (Edmond) Teinturier
1839–1902
Best remembered for work that brought a doctor's eye to strange corners of history, this 19th-century French writer explored witchcraft, possession, and questions of mental illness. His surviving books suggest a thoughtful, curious mind drawn to the borderlands between medicine, belief, and the law.
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Le sabbat des sorciers
by Bourneville, E. (Edmond) Teinturier
About the author
Edmond Teinturier (1839–1902) is a little-known French author whose name now survives mainly through a small number of late-19th-century works. Library and public-domain records identify him as the coauthor of Le sabbat des sorciers, a study of witchcraft and the witches' sabbath written with physician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville.
The same records also connect him with G. V. Townley, ou Du diagnostic de la folie au point de vue légal, another collaboration with Bourneville. Taken together, these books place Teinturier in a world where medicine, psychiatry, criminal law, and the history of belief overlapped.
Very little biographical detail appears to be readily preserved about his personal life, which makes his work all the more striking. What remains suggests a serious researcher interested in how fear, superstition, and mental disturbance were understood in his time.