Georg Ritschel (13 February 1616, Deutsch Kahn – 28 December 1683, Hexham) was a Bohemian Protestant minister and educator.
He was educated at the university of Strasburg (1633–40), and then, on the expulsion of Protestants from Bohemia, gave his inheritance to his younger brother rather than convert to Catholicism.
He obtained the post of tutor to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania; and in 1643 he travelled in Denmark, and spent over a year at Copenhagen and Sorø.
[3] In 1655 or 1656 Ritschel was appointed rector of Hexham, Northumberland, and as "pastor" there signed the address to the Protector Oliver Cromwell from the ministers of the Newcastle area, in August 1657.
[6] Ritschel died in possession of the vicarage of Hexham on 28 December 1683, and was buried in the chancel of his church, where an inscription was erected to his memory on a blue marble stone in the choir.