Bohemian as a polyglot

Bohemian
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Our notice of Bohemian linguists must be even more meagre. the early period of Bohemian letters presents no distinguished name. From the extraordinary activity which the Bohemians exhibited in translating the Bible in the fifteenth century, it might be supposed that the study of Greek and Hebrew had already taken root in the schools of Prague. But out of the " thirty-three copies in Bohemian of the entire Bible, and twenty-two of the New Testament," which are still extant, translated during that period, not one was rendered from the original languages. Blakoslav, the first translator of the Bible from Greek (in 1563) is said to have been a man of " profound erudition," the same is said of George Strye a few years later; and the Jesuits Konstanj, Steyer, and Drachovsky, are also entitled to notice.