The Grand Inquisitor Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomás de... more » Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.« less