Huss

JOHANN, (hoos,) a Protestant leader and church reformer, B. in Bohemia, 1373. While holding a preacher ship in Prague, 1402, he incurred the censure of the Church by advocating the new Wickliffian doctrines. His work On the Church caused him to be summoned before the Council of Con stance, 1414, where he tenaciously maintained his Protestant opinions, and was accordingly burned at the stake by order of the Emperor Sigismund. Hyaloid, [s. 468]