Martin Húska

Martin Húska ( called Loquis because of his language skills ; † August 21, 1421 in Roudnice nad Labem ) was a Czech preacher and radical church reformer.

Húska, who probably came from Moravia , was a leading representative of the picards , the radical wing of the newly formed Taborite camp . Like other picards, he and his sect soon had problems with the Prague bishop Nikolaus von Pelgrims . At the beginning of 1421 the picards had to leave Tábor and settled in Příběnice . Shortly afterwards he was called back to Tábor. There he was forced to revoke his teaching.

After the majority of the picards (around 50 people) were burned after a fight in the municipality of Klokoty (now part of Tábor), Húska continued to preach to his few remaining followers. He was persecuted and captured by Diviš Bořek z Miletínka . Since he also refused to revoke Ambrož Hradecký for several weeks, who wanted to lead him back on the “right path”, he was transferred to the hands of Archbishop Konrad von Vechta . When he did not recant there, despite torture, he was publicly burned in Roudnice .

literature

• Milan Churaň and collective: Kdo byl kdo v našich dějinách (German: Who was who in our history? ). ISBN 80-85983-65-6 .
• Ralf Höller: I am the fight. Rebels and revolutionaries from six centuries. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-8054-9 , pp. 11–38 (chapter Jan Žižka: A blind people follows its blind leader ).