Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet, prose writer, politician, and musician of the early Polish Renaissance. He was the first major author to write exclusively in the Polish language and is regarded, alongside Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski, as one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.
- Occupation
- poet, translator, writer, politician
- Position held
- Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Poland
- Born
- February 4, 1505
