Václav Beneš Optát (died 1559) was a Czech Utraquist Hussite priest. In 1533 he published as co-author with Petr Gzel of Prague the first Czech Grammar (Grammatika česká v dvojí stránce). In the same year he published his Czech translation of the New Testament based on Erasmus' edition. References Year of birth unknown 1559 deaths People from Telč People from the Margraviate of Moravia Hussite people Translators of the Bible into Czech 16th-century linguists Linguists from the Czech Republic