Kaspar Ursinus Velius

Kaspar Ursinus Velius (c. 1493 – 5 March 1539) was a German humanist scholar, poet and historian.

From Schweidnitz in Silesia (now Świdnica in Poland) he began life as secretary to Johann Thurzo, Bishop of Breslau.

[1] His De Bello Pannonico chronicled the wars of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor against John Zápolya and the Ottoman Empire.

The manuscript had been hidden for centuries, until a mutilated, patched version was discovered in the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) in 2018.

[3] A friend of Johannes Göritz (Corycius), he visited Rome as an upcoming Neo-Latin poet.