Peter Binsfeld (alternate spelling Peter of Binsfeld, lat. Petrus Binsfeldius) (c. 1540 - 1598 or 1603) was a German bishop and theologian.
Peter, a son of a farmer and craftsman, was born in the village of Binsfeld in the rural Eifel region, located in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate; he died in Trier as a victim of the bubonic plague. Binsfeld grew up in the predominantly Catholic environment of the Eifel region.
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