Who completed an early Czech translation of the New Testament?

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Czech literature Jan Hus at the stake, colored woodcut from a Hussite prayer book, 1563.

In the context of Czech literature, the Moravian bishop Jan Blahoslav is credited with completing an early translation of the New Testament during the 16th century.1

His work was a significant precursor to the Kralice Bible, a monumental six-volume translation produced by scholars of the Unitas Fratrum between 1579 and 1593. The Kralice Bible, which was based on the original languages, is widely regarded as the finest extant specimen of classical Czech and served as the standard Protestant version of the era.21