Georgius Baresch (1585 - 1662) also known as Barschius, was a Czech alchemist, who worked at the court of Rudolph II of Prague.
On the death of Jacobus Sinapius (1622), responsible for the Emperor's library, he was the sole owner of the Voynich Manuscript which he tried to translate in vain.
In 1636 Athanasius Kircher published his Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus in such a way that Baresch thought that the German would be the only one capable of interpreting his strange signs and content: he wrote him a letter, in 1637, in which he asked him to study the text and try to find a solution to the problem by attaching copies of some of its pages; this first letter has been lost but there is no evidence that Kircher was interested in the issue or that he achieved any results.
In a second letter (dated April 1639) he became interested in translating the copies of several pages that he had sent him some time ago (a work he defines as a book containing "drawings of plants, star images and other things that made you think of chemical secrets "), while offering to send the original manuscript taking advantage of the trip of some friends from Prague to Rome.
There was also no response to this second letter so Baresch continued with his sterile attempts to translate until the day of his death, at which time he bequeathed the book to his friend Johannes Marcus Marci. This one would also contact with Kircher, in 1665 or 1666, and finally it would send the manuscript to him so that it tried to translate it: the result is not known and Kircher never mentioned anything on the subject, reason why it is possible to suppose that it did not have any success or that considered it as a simple scam that was not worth writing or criticizing. Source
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