April 6 , 1943

Brian P. Levack, (born April 6 1943) graduated with a Ph.D from Yale in 1970. He taught (teaches) subsequently at the University of Texas (Austin) history department. He married Nancy Buecker (1966) and their two sons are now grown: Christopher is a sculptor; and Andrew is a public health professional. 

The information in this post came from the UT website and Burnt Orange Britannia: Adventures in History and the Arts, edited by William Roger Louis (2006). The latter volume notes that Levack was raised a Catholic and now describes himself as agnostic.

Levack has been quoted as saying about his background, that he "grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian."

Here is his bibliography, starting with the books he wrote:

The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641: A Political Study. (1973)

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. (1987,  3rd ed. 2006)

The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707. (1987)

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (with Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter). [The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, vol. 5. Edited by Stuart Clark and Bengt Ankarloo.] (1999)

Gender and Witchcraft. (2001).
The West: Encounters and Transformations (with Edward Muir, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman).  (2004)

Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion. (2008)

That is most of the books he wrote, and here are those he edited:

The Jacobean Union: Six Tracts of 1604. Co-edited with Bruce Galloway. (1985)

Articles on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: A Twelve-Volume Anthology of Scholarly Articles. (1992)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: A Six-Volume Anthology of Articles.  (2001)

The Witchcraft Sourcebook. (2004)

In the latest book he authored, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013), he wrote  that "accusations of witchcraft gradually devolved onto illiterate women who were viewed as sexual slaves of the Devil...." Later, that "Sometimes the possessing demons were ...identified as animals as when four of the five demons that inhabited the young French demoniac Loyse Maillat were identified as Wolf, Cat, Dog and Griffon." Loyse was an 8 year old when she came to the attention of authorities in 1598. 

Another recent book he wrote, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (2013) is said to be about "the great age of witch-hunting in Europe (and also in colonial America), between 1450 and 1750."  I mention this because it is so rare for scholars to appreciate that witchcraft, as we view it today, is a modern phenomenon, not medieval.  I don't know if Levack focuses on this curious mislabeling.