Martin Rakovský
The native form of this personal name is Rakovszky Márton. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals. Martin Rakovský (, ; c. 1535 – 28 September 1579) was a Renaissance-era Hungarian poet and humanist scholar during the mid-16th century. Life He was born around the year 1535 in the village of Rakouch (Rakovo), in Turóc County, which is now in the Martin District of the Žilina Region in Slovakia. Before 1554, he studied at the school in Körmöczbánya/Kremnitz, now Kremnica. Thereafter, he moved on to Bártfa/Bártfeld, now Bardejov, where he studied with noted humanist Leonard Stöckel, and later Brassó/Kronstadt, now Brașov before spending 1555–56 at the University of Wittenberg studying under Philip Melanchthon, an associate of Martin Luther. In 1556, Rakovský studied in Prague briefly before returning to Wittenberg to earn his master's degree, which he did in 1558. During his time of education, he served in northern Bohemia as rector of the schools in Žatec in 1556 and then at Louny from 1557–1559. Between 1559–1569, Rakovszky served as a clark of the Royal Chamber of Hungary in Pozsony, Pressburg in German, now Bratislava, which was the capital of Royal Hungary at that time as the country's historical