Croat-Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs
1434 CE
to 1472 CE
Janus Pannonius (August 29, 1434, Čazma – March 27, 1472, Medvedgrad castle, near Zagreb) is a Croat-Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs.
He is the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of Humanist poetry in Europe.