Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer

Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689–1751) was a German-Bohemian Baroque architect, born in Prague, the most gifted of the Dientzenhofer family of architects. He left Bohemia around 1710, toured Germany, France and Italy and trained under Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in Vienna, returning in 1716.

In Prague he built the Church of Saint John of Nepomuk at Hradčany (1720–1728), redesigned the Loreta in 1723 and completed the Church of Saint Nicholas in Malá Strana. He also rebuilt Broumov monastery and planned its surrounding group of village Baroque churches. He died in Prague in December 1751.