Johann Criginger (1521 - December 27, 1571) was a German Lutheran pastor, writer and cartographer. He was a student at the University of Wittenburg, transferring later to the University of Leipzig and in 1541 to the University of Tübingen. He became a teacher in Crimmitschau, but then returned to Wittenberg, whence he graduated in 1544. 1547 found him as court preacher of Count Lorenz Schlick in Žlutice. By 1548 he was a clergyman in Marienberg, where he became archdeacon in 1551. In 1559 he became a pastor in the Church of the Virgin Mary, holding that position until his death. Not only a churchman, Criginger was also a cartographer. He is most remembered for his 1568 Bohemiae regni nova chorographica Descriptio, which provided the source for Abraham Ortelius' Regni Bohemia Descriptio. (Criginger's map now exists only in two known copies.
