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Ambrosius Lobwasser
Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585) was a Saxon jurist and professor of law at Königsberg whose German verse translation of the Genevan Psalter served German Reformed churches for over 200 years.
Antoine Godeau
Antoine Godeau (1605–1672) was a French poet and bishop of Grasse and then Vence, elected to the Académie française in 1634 and named bishop by Richelieu.
Friedrich von Spee
Friedrich von Spee (1591–1635) was a German Jesuit priest, moral theology professor, and poet whose anonymous Cautio Criminalis of 1631 attacked torture in witch trials.
Georg Neumark
Georg Neumark (1621–1681) was a German Lutheran poet, composer, and hymn writer, remembered for the hymn "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten" and his Weimar offices.
Jakob Balde
Jakob Balde (1604–1668) was a German Jesuit priest and Neo-Latin poet, court preacher to Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, acclaimed "the German Horace" and ranked among the greatest Neo-Latin poets.
Jiří Třanovský
Jiří Třanovský, also Juraj Tranovský or Georgius Tranoscius (1592–1637), was a Lutheran pastor and hymnwriter called the father of Slovak hymnody, who compiled the Cithara Sanctorum.
Johannes Dantiscus
Johannes Dantiscus, in Polish Jan Dantyszek, was a Polish-Lithuanian humanist, Neo-Latin poet, and royal diplomat who served three kings and became Bishop of Warmia in 1537.
Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski
Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski (Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, 1595–1640) was a Polish Jesuit court preacher and Neo-Latin poet, celebrated across Europe as the "Christian Horace" and the "Sarmatian Horace".
Rafael Landívar
Rafael Landívar (Rafael Landívar y Caballero, 1731–1793) was a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and poet, author of the Rusticatio Mexicana, a Latin epic on Mexico and Guatemala.
René Rapin
René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit poet, critic, and historian whose Latin garden poem Hortorum libri IV (1665) won European acclaim and whose Mémoires record the Jesuit side of the Jansenist quarrel.
Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1612/13–1649) was an English poet and clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism, known for the sensuous sacred verse of Steps to the Temple (1646).