Václav Koranda

Koranda preaches at the meeting of the first Hussites (1916, from the Slavic epic by Alfons Mucha )

Václav Koranda , German  Wenzel Koranda (* around 1390, probably in Pilsen , † 1453 in Litice ) was a radical Hussite clergyman.

Life

Koranda first appeared as a pastor in Pilsen in 1414 . In his parish he already tried to implement the new reformed Bohemian church teaching. In 1417, after a coup, he tried to transform the city of Pilsen into a state of God under the name "City of the Sun" . Pilsen was under Koranda and a few other leaders (e.g. Jan Žižka ) from 1417 to 1419 the center of radical Chiliastic Hussiteism in Bohemia. Along with Johann von Jitschin , Petr Hromádka , Ambros von Grätz and Jan Čapek, he was one of the founders and priests of the Hussite village in Alttabor . Together with other leading figures of the Hussites, he organized a pilgrimage from Pilsen to Křížky near Prague in 1419. There he announced his radical program for the establishment of a divine state.

In 1420 the radical part of the Hussites left Pilsen and went to Tábor . There Koranda soon headed the radical wing of the movement. In 1422 he was imprisoned by the Rosenbergers , shortly afterwards freed by the Taborites . Around 1437 he took over the spiritual administration in Saaz , but could not make friends with the new conditions after the Battle of Lipan . After the conquest of the Taborite bastion by the later King George of Podebrady , he was captured in 1452, transferred to Prague and imprisoned there for a long time in the Old Town Hall . His teaching was banned. Only when he vowed obedience in 1453 was he transferred to Lititz Castle , which was then owned by Georg von Podiebrad. He died there shortly afterwards.

Teaching

During his activity in Pilsen, Koranda propagated a god state and urged his followers to use a "pilgrimage sword" instead of a staff. His views became the basis of the teaching of the Taborites. At the meeting of the Taborite clergy in February 1422, he enforced the doctrine that denied transubstantiation .

literature

• Ze starých letopisů českých [From old Bohemian chronicles], Prague 1980
• Noemi Rejchrtová: Administrátor Václav Koranda O lichvě
• "Koranda, Václav", in: Prochorov, AM (ed.): Great Soviet encyclopedia: a translation of the third edition, New York 1983, vol. 13, p. 380, no. 4