Jiří Melantrich z Aventina

Jiří Melantrich z Aventina (c. 1511–1580), born Jiří Černý Rožďalovický, was the leading Czech Renaissance printer and publisher. He opened his Prague workshop in the mid-1540s, and after Ferdinand I banned Czech Protestant literature in 1547 he joined a Catholic printer, whose workshop he later took over.

His Melantrich's Bible appeared from 1549 in five editions by 1577, and he also printed humanist and scholarly works. A Lutheran tolerant of Catholicism, he was ennobled with the title z Aventina in 1557, and after his death in 1580 his press passed to his partner Daniel Adam z Veleslavína.