Jan Hus aka Jan Huss, John Hus, John Huss (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ( listen); ca. 1372 Husinec, Bohemia – 6 July 1415 Konstanz, Germany), often referred to in English as John Huss or variations thereof, was a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague.
He is famed for having been burned at the stake for what the Roman Catholic Church considered to be his heretical views on ecclesiology. Hus ...
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Jan Hus aka Jan Huss, John Hus, John Huss (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ( listen); ca. 1372 Husinec, Bohemia – 6 July 1415 Konstanz, Germany), often referred to in English as John Huss or variations thereof, was a Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague.
He is famed for having been burned at the stake for what the Roman Catholic Church considered to be his heretical views on ecclesiology. Hus was a key contributor to the Protestant movement whose teachings had a strong influence on the states of Europe, most immediately in the approval for the existence of a reformist Bohemian Church, and, more than a century later, on Martin Luther himself.
Jan Hus was influenced by the teachings of John Wycliffe. After the King of England, Richard II, married Anne of Bohemia, they traveled back to Bohemia where they carried Wycliffe's ideas with them. Once Hus adopted Wycliffe's ideas, he proposed to reform the church in Bohemia just as Wycliffe...
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