Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky

Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky of Sebuzin and of Horstein was a Bohemian lawyer and writer, born in Horšovský Týn in 1580 and died in Prague on 21 November 1644. He held secretarial, diplomatic and judicial posts under the emperors Rudolf II, Mathias, Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, and served as attorney-general under the last of them. He was also a poet, and the English Wikipedia calls him a cryptographer. His name is tied to the mystery of the Voynich manuscript: a letter of 1666 kept with the manuscript records that he told its writer, Marcus Marci, that the manuscript had once belonged to Rudolf, who had bought it for 600 gold ducats.