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Taube bas Leib Pan (néePitzker; Yiddish: טויבאַ בּת לייבּ פּאַן) was a sixteenth-century Yiddish writer, who lived in the Prague ghetto at the time of Mordecai Meisel.
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David Gans (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; 1541–1613), also known as Rabbi Dovid Solomon Ganz, was a Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer. He is the author of ...
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Kryštof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (Czech: Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, 1564 – 21 June 1621) was a Czech nobleman, traveler, humanist, soldier, writer and composer. He joined the Protestant ...
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Pavel Aquilinas (also Vorličný or Aquilinus) (before 1520 – c. 1569) was Czech Protestant theologian, pedagogist, humanistic poet and translator.
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Ursula of Munsterberg (German: Ursula von Münsterberg; Czech: Uršula z Minstrberka, Voršila Minstrberská, kněžna a Kladská hraběnka; c. 1491/95 or 1499, presumably in Teschen - after 2 February 1534, ...
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Viktorin Kornel of Všehrdy (Czech: Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd) or simply Všehrd (1460 – 21 September 1520), was a Czech humanist and lawyer, working towards the end of the 15th century as Vice-scribe at ...
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Wenceslaus Hájek of Libočany (Czech: Václav Hájek z Libočan, German: Wenzeslaus Hagek von Libotschan, Latin: Wenceslaus Hagecius, Wenceslaus Hagek a Liboczan; late 15th century – 18 March 1553) was a ...
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Sigismund Gelenius (1497 – 1554), also known as Sigismund Gelen or Sigmund Gelen, was born as Czech: Zikmund Hrubý z Jelení, into a family of Bohemian nobles in Prague. He was an eminent Greek scholar ...
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Johannes Mathesius (June 24, 1504 – October 7, 1565), also called Johann Mathesius or John Mathesius, was a German minister and a Lutheran reformer. He is best known for his compilation of Martin ...
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Jo(h)annes Dubravius (c. 1486 in Plzeň – 9 September 1553 in Kroměříž) was a Czech churchman, humanist and writer. He became the bishop of Olomouc. His name is given also as Jan Dubravius or Janus Dub ...
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Matthäus Aurogallus, German: Matthäus Goldhahn (1490 – 10 November 1543) was a Bohemian linguist. Born in Chomutov (then Komotau), Bohemia, as Matthäus Goldhahn, (he latinized his name Aurogallus in the ...
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Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (also Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus, Czech: Jan Campanus Vodňanský , Jan z Vodňan or Jan Kampánus Vodňanský) (27 December 1572 – 13 December 1622) was a Czech humanist, composer ...
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Augustinus Olomucensis (March 1467, Olomouc – 3 November 1513, Olomouc) was a Moravian humanist and theologian. His birth name was Augustin Käsenbrot (or Käsenbrod), but he was also known as Aug ...