Stephanus Brodericus (Croatian: Stjepan Brodarić; Hungarian: Brodarics István; c. 1480 – 17 November 1539[1]) was a Croatian–Hungarian bishop, diplomat, chancellor and humanist writer.
He started his studies in Pécs and continued at the universities of Bologna and Padua, receiving his Doctorate in Canon Law in 1506.
[2] After his return to Hungary at the age of 35-36 he worked in Esztergom, then got into the chancellery of Szatmár as a secretary in 1508.
The Hungarian-Croatian bishop spent most of his time in the chancellery: the most important organ of the Hungarian internal and foreign affairs.
[1] Brodericus participated in several diplomatic missions and wrote an account of the 1526 Battle of Mohács in his 1568 book Clades in campo Mohacz.