Jan Hus

Jan Hus was a late medieval Czechuniversity master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council ofConstance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Thanks to hiscontemporary influence and his posthumous fame in the Hussite movement andbeyond, Hus has become one of the best known figures of the Czech past and oneof the most prominent reformers of medieval Europe as a whole.

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