JAN HAUS

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

• One of Wycliffe's followers
• Believed that people should be able to read the bible in their own language
• The Roman Catholic Church executed people for reading non-Latin bibles

PUBLICATIONS

• "Vyklad viery desatera a patere"
• The Exposition of the Faith and the Ten Commandments and of the Lord's Prayer
• Other religious tracts, collections of his sermons and personal letters
• Learned treaties and lectures

GROUPS THREATENED BY IDEAS

• Roman Catholic Church
• Anyone who followed Huss was considered a heretic & executed

IMPACT

• First to think outside Catholic Church
• Influenced Lutherism

EXTRA FACTS

• Born between 1369-1371
• Died in 1415
• Burned at the stake - kindling was Wycliffe's bibles
• Followers called "Hussites"
• Reformer of Bohemia