Jodok Kedd (Jodocus Kedd)
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Born Emmerich 1597, died Vienna 1657.
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Jesuit priest and controversialist.
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Probably a friend from Kircher’s student days, sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Kedd’s letters to Kircher
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Théodore Moret (Theodorus Moretus)
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Born Antwerp 1602, died Breslau 1667.
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A Belgian Jesuit mathematician, spent most of his career in Prague.
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Delivered Baresch’s transcript of the manuscript to Kircher.
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Moret’s letters to Kircher
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Georg Baresch (Georgius Barschius)
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c. 1585 – c. 1655
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Only known to history from his assocation with Marci and the Voynich manuscript.
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Owned the Voynich manuscript and left it to Marci.
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Baresch’s letter to Kircher
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A transcription of Baresch’s letter to Kircher
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Johann Markus Marci (Joannes Marcus Marci, Jan Marek Marci)
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Born Landskrona 1595, died Prague 1667.
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Czech scientist, mathematician and physician, Rector of the University of Prague.
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Inherited the manuscript from Baresch, gave it to Kircher.
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Marci’s letters to Kircher
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Marci’s letters to Kircher
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Marci’s letters to Caramuel Lobkowitz
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Marci and Kinner to Caramuel Lobkowitz
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Martino Santini (Martinus Santinus)
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Born Trent 1575, died Prague 1655.
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Jesuit academic, Chancellor of the University of Graz, Rector of the Jesuit Colleges at Prague and Lemberg.
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One of Marci’s medical teachers, shared his interest in alchemical medicine, may have known Baresch.
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Santini’s letters to Kircher
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Bernhard Ignaz Martinitz (Bernardus Ignatius Martinitz)
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Born Prague 1603, died Prague 1683.
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Czech statesman, became Burgrave of Bohemia: also the Protector of the University of Prague.
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Shared Kircher’s interest in steganography and universal scripts. A friend of Marci.
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Bernhard Martinitz’s letters to Kircher
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Johann Gans (Joannes Gans)
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Born Würzburg 1591, died Vienna 1662.
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Jesuit priest, confessor of Emperor Ferdinand III.
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An influential courtier who sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Gans’s letters to Kircher
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Ferdinand Johann von Lichtenstein
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Born 1622, died 1666.
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Son of Prince Gundakar von Lichtenstein. His uncle Karl I von Lichtenstein was Statthalter of Bohemia 1622-1627.
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An important nobleman who sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Lichtenstein’s letters to Kircher
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Balthasar Conrad (Balthasar Conradus)
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Born Neisse 1599, died Glatz 1660.
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Jesuit mathematician
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Knew Marci and Moret, shared their interest in astronomy and mathematics.
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Conrad’s letters to Kircher
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Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (Joannes Caramuel de Lobkowitz)
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Born Madrid 1606, died Vigevano 1682.
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Spanish Cistercian monk, an important intellectual figure. Lived in Belgium (1635-1643) and Bohemia (1646-1655) where he had family connections. Called to Rome and made bishop of Campania and then Vigevano.
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A friend of Marci, shared his interest in astronomy and mathematics.
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Caramuel’s letter to Martinitz
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Caramuel’s letters to Marci
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Caramuel’s letter to Marci and Kinner
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Caramuel’s letters to Kircher
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Johann Schega
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Born Laybach 1595, died Vienna 1664.
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Jesuit priest, confessor of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662, brother of Ferdinand III, governor of Belgium).
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An influential courtier who sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Schega’s letters to Kircher
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Simon Schurer
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Nothing known of him.
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Schurer’s letters to Kircher
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Gottfried Aloysius Kinner (Godefridus Aloysius Kinner)
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Dates not known, around 1610 – 1670.
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A mathematician, probably also a priest, tutor to Archduke Karl Josef of Austria (1649-1664, younger half-brother of Leopold I).
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A longstanding friend of Marci, shared his interest in alchemical medicine. Saw the manuscript before it was sent to Kircher and twice raised the question with him.
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Kinner’s letters to Kircher
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Kinner’s letters to Kircher
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Heinrich Julius von Blume
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Born Brunswick 1622, died Prague after 1688.
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Austrian statesman.
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An influential courtier who sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Blume’s letters to Kircher
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Philipp Miller or Müller
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Born Graz 1613, died Vienna 1676.
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Jesuit theologian, tutor and confessor of Leopold I.
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An influential courtier who sometimes travelled through Prague.
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Miller’s letters to Kircher
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Jakob Johann Dobrzensky
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Dates not known: c. 1620-1690.
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A Bohemian doctor and medical writer, lived in Parma for part of his life.
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An old friend of Marci and Kinner, shared their interest in alchemical medicine, became Marci’s literary executor.
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Dobrzensky’s letter to Kircher
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Marcus Martinitz
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Nothing known of him.
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Marcus Martinitz’s letter to Kircher
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Ernst Adalbert von Harrach
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Born Vienna 1598, died Vienna 1681.
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Austrian-Bohemian churchman, enforced the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia. Cardinal and Archbishop of Prague.
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Harrach’s letter to Kircher
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Siegmund Hartmann
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Born Vienna 1632, died Prague 1681.
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Austrian-Bohemian Jesuit mathematician.
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Knew Moret and Kinner, shared their interest in mathematics.
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Hartmann’s letter to Kircher
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Johann Friedrich von Wallenstein or Waldstein
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Born Vienna 1642, died Dux 1694.
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Bohemian nobleman and churchman, Archbishop of Königgrätz and then Prague.
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Wallenstein’s letters to Kircher
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Johann Franz von Kollowrath
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Nothing known of him.
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Kollowrath’s letters to Kircher
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