Vavrinec Benedikt of Nedožery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vavrinec Benedikt of Nedožery

Czech poet, linguist, mathematician, translator, university educator and science writer

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1555

Place of Birth: Nedožery-Brezany, Trenčín Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1615

Profession: writer, poet, mathematician, translator, pedagogue, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Czech: Vavrinec Benedikt z Nudožer (Nedožer, Nedožier, Nudožerinus), Hungarian: Benedicti M.
Lorinc; 1555, Nedožery (Hungarian: Nadaser (Nádasér), Nedozser), Kingdom of Hungary, now Slovakia – 4 June 1615, Prague, Bohemia, now Czech Republic) was a Slovak mathematician, teacher, poet, translator and philologist settled in Bohemia. He studied in Jihlava and Prague.
From 1604 he was active at the University of Prague where he taught classical philology and later mathematics.
The dean and vice-rector of the university.
He was involved in the development of Czech humanism. He was the author of the first systematic Czech grammar (Grammaticae Bohemicae ad leges naturalis methodi conformatae et notis numerisque illustratae ac distinctae libri duo, 1603).
He also drew attention to Slovak as a distinct language and suggested Slovaks to cultivate their language.