Benedikt Ried (also Rejt or Rieth), German architect, active in Bohemia. There is little documented information about his life. According to some of them, he came to Prague as a military engineer to rebuild the Prague Castle fortification. He became the leading medieval architect in Bohemia who built the Vladislav Hall (1493-1515) in Prague Castle, St. Barbara's Church, Kutna Hora, (c. 1482) and other buildings in Late Gothic and early Renaissance style. //