Editing Jan Hus (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Jan Hus Statue and Tyn Church, Old Town Square, Prague - 8190.jpg|thumb|[[Jan Hus Memorial]] at [[Old Town Square (Prague)|Old Town Square]] in [[Prague]] built in 1915]]
A century after the [[Hussite Wars]] began, as many as 90% of inhabitants of the [[Czech lands]] were Hussites (although in the [[Utraquist]] tradition following a joint Utraquist—Catholic victory in the Hussite Wars).{{sfn|Václavík|2010|p=53}} [[Czech Republic|Bohemia]] was the site of [[Hussites|one of the most significant pre-reformation movements]],<ref name="museeprotestant.org">{{Cite web|url=https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/protestantism-in-the-republic-of-czechoslovakia/|title=Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic)}}</ref> and there are still Protestant adherents remaining in modern times;<ref>{{cite web|language=cs |url=http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_1_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_municipality_size_groups/$File/PVCR071_ENG.pdf |title=Tab 7.1 Population by religious belief and by municipality size groups |publisher=Czso.cz |access-date=19 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221184947/http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_1_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_municipality_size_groups/%24File/PVCR071_ENG.pdf |archive-date=21 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=cs |url=http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_2_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_regions/$File/PVCR072_ENG.pdf |title=Tab 7.2 Population by religious belief and by regions |publisher=Czso.cz |access-date=19 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104224923/http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_2_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_regions/%24File/PVCR072_ENG.pdf |archive-date= 4 November 2013 }}</ref> though they no longer comprise the majority: suggested historical reasons include the persecution of Protestants by the [[Catholic]] [[Habsburgs]],<ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-0-470-29323-2 |first1=Hana |last1=Mastrini |title=Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic |year=2008 |edition=7th |publisher=Wiley }}{{page needed|date=July 2018}}</ref> particularly after the [[Battle of White Mountain]] in 1620; restrictions during the [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Communist rule]]; and also the ongoing [[secularization]].<ref name="museeprotestant.org"/>  Modern Czechs exhibit very high distrust of religious and other institutions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halík |first1=Tomáš |last2=Hošek |first2=Pavel |title=Czech Perspective on Faith in a Secular Age: Czech Philosophical Studies, V |date=2015 |publisher=Council for Research into Values and Philosophy |location=Washington, DC, USA |isbn=9781565183001 |url=https://www.crvp.org/publications/Series-VIII/10-master-czech.pdf |access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref>{{rp|27}}

Jan Hus was a key contributor to [[Protestantism]], whose teachings had a strong influence on the states of Europe and on [[Martin Luther]].{{sfn|Oberman|Walliser-Schwarzbart|2006|pp=54–55}} The [[Hussite Wars]] resulted in the Basel Compacts, which allowed for a reformed Church in the Kingdom of Bohemia—almost a century before such developments would take place in the Lutheran Reformation. [[Moravian Church|The Unitas Fratrum (or Moravian Church)]] is the modern-day home of Hus's followers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unitasfratrum.org/index.php/origin-growth-of-the-unitas-fratrum/ |title=The Origin & Growth |website=Unitas Fratrum |access-date=17 September 2011 |archive-date=26 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926192935/http://www.unitasfratrum.org/index.php/origin-growth-of-the-unitas-fratrum/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Hus's extensive writings earned him a prominent place in Czech literary history.

In 1883 the Czech composer [[Antonín Dvořák]] composed his [[Hussite Overture]] based on melodies used by Hussite soldiers. It was often performed by the German conductor [[Hans von Bülow]].

Professor [[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]] used Hus's name in his speech at Geneva University on 6 July 1915, for defense against Austria and in July 1917 for the title of the first corps of troops of his legions in Russia.<ref>Preclík, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karviná) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague, CZ), 2019, {{ISBN|978-80-87173-47-3}}, pp.&nbsp;17–25, 33–45, 70–76, 159–184, 187–199</ref>

Today, the [[Jan Hus Memorial]] is located at the Prague [[Old Town Square]] ({{langx|cs|Staroměstské náměstí|links=no}}), and there are many smaller memorials in other towns throughout the Czech Republic.

In New York City, a church in [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]] (located at 153 Ocean Avenue) and a church and a theatre in [[Manhattan]] (located at 351 [[East 74th Street]]) are named for Hus, the John Hus Moravian Church and the Jan Hus Playhouse, respectively. Although Manhattan's church and theatre share a single building and management, the playhouse's productions are usually nonreligious or nondenominational.

A statue of Jan Hus was erected at the Union Cemetery in [[Bohemia, New York]] (on [[Long Island]]) by Czech immigrants to the New York area in 1893.

In contrast to the popular perception that Hus was a [[proto-Protestantism|proto-Protestant]], some Eastern Orthodox Christians have argued that his theology was far closer to [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Christianity]]. Jan Hus is considered a martyr saint in some jurisdictions of the Orthodox Church.<ref name="husodox">{{cite web|url=http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2011/11/19/jan-hus-jerome-of-prague-and-orthodoxy-in-czechia-slovakia/|title=Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague and Orthodoxy in Czechia & Slovakia|access-date=26 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213205339/http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2011/11/19/jan-hus-jerome-of-prague-and-orthodoxy-in-czechia-slovakia/|archive-date=13 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church]] claims to trace its origin to Hus, to be "neo-Hussite", and contains mixed Eastern Orthodox and Protestant elements. Nowadays, he is considered a saint by the Orthodox churches of [[Church of Greece|Greece]], [[Church of Cyprus|Cyprus]], [[Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia|Czechoslovakia]], and several others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pravoslavie.ru/49048.html|title = More and More People in Czechia and Slovakia Are Giving Preference to the Orthodox Church}}</ref>

Hus was voted the greatest hero of the Czech nation in a 2015 survey by Czech Radio.<ref name="Anketa: KDO JE PRO VÁS HRDiNA.CZ? HRDiNA.CZ">{{cite web|title=Anketa: Kdo Je Pro Vás hrdina.cz?|url=http://www.rozhlas.cz/hrdina/anketa|website=www.rozhlas.cz|access-date=20 June 2017|language=cs}}</ref>