Life and setting
Hus preached reform in Prague, criticized abuses in church leadership and drew on some Wycliffite ideas while developing his own program. Condemned at the Council of Constance, he was executed in 1415.
Late Medieval • Bohemian Reform
Jan Hus
c. 1372 – 1415 • Preacher, reformer and martyr
Why this person matters
His death intensified Bohemian reform movements and made him an important predecessor to the sixteenth-century Reformation.
What should not be sanitized
The relationship between Hus and Wycliffe was more selective than polemical opponents sometimes claimed.