Václav Melissaeus Lounský

Václav Melissaeus Lounský (also known as Václav Meduna Lounský; – 4 March 1631) was an Utraquist Hussite teacher and priest in Bohemia.

Biography Václav Melissaeus Lounský was born around 1573 in Louny. He was the son of Václav Melissaeus Krtský (1540–1578) and nephew of Jakub Melissaeus Krtský (1554–1599).

After his father's death, he lived with his guardian and uncle Jakub in Pelhřimov and Kutná Hora in the 1580s. He was later educated at Latin schools in Louny (until 1592) and Chrudim.

On 21 September 1593, his sister married the writer Václav Stříbrský, son of the late Peter.

From 1594, he studied at Prague's Utraquist University (at the Collegium sanctissimae virginis Mariae domus nationis Bohemicae), today's Charles University, where he received a bachelor's degree on 12 July 1595.

After returning to Bohemia, he worked again at the archdeaconry school in Kutná Hora from March 1603 until 1605, this time as its rector. On 17 August 1604, he obtained his master's degree at Prague's Utraquist University. he was appointed chaplain at St. Barbara's Church in Kutná Hora.

On 24 January 1606, he married at St. Barbara Kateřina from Most, who was a servant to Řehor Zhorský Kladrubský, a burgher and writer of the town of Louny.

Before the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, he became the ecclesiastical administrator of the rectory in Hrušovany, Polepy, on the estate of Ladislav Žejdlic of Šenfeld (Seydlitz von Schönfeld).

In 1622–1623, as part of the Counter-Reformation, he was denounced and expelled by Jesuits, which in 1624 forced him to go into exile in Pirna, Saxony, with his wife and four children (one daughter). In Pirna, on 24 February 1627, his wife Kateřina was godmother to Bohuslav, the son of Václav Nisselius of Strakonice.

He is the author of several small Latin compositions, some writings were also dedicated to him.