"Picture 'Mistr Jan' should not in any dwelling right Czech mistake." Karel Havlíček about 'Mistr Jan Hus'

Abstract

Havlíček's journalistic works and correspondence is obvious that Jan Hus was a challenge for him throughout his adulthood. He thought of him as a moral authority for his contemporaries, as an exemplary model for other countries.

She viewed him as a critic of the abuses of church and ecclesiastical hierarchy, whose opinions and according to him resonated with the views Havlíček's companions.

Keywords

• Czech history, half of the 19th century
• correspondence
• Czech periodicals
• Karel Havlíček