Johannes von Tepl

Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 – c. 1415), also known as Johannes von Saaz (Czech: Jan ze Žatce), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German—depending on the criteria).

[1] Not much is known about him; historians presume that he probably studied at universities in Prague, Bologna and Padua.

In 1383, he became a solicitor in Žatec (Saaz) and in 1386 a rector of the town's Latin school.

He spent almost all of his life in the Kingdom of Bohemia, during the reign of kings Charles and Wenceslaus.

Central themes of the book are their opposing views on life, mankind, and morality.