Jan Blahoslav (February 20, 1523, Přerov – November 24, 1571, Moravský Krumlov) was a Czechhumanistic writer, translator, and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events April - Battle of Villalar - Forces loyal to Emperor Charles V defeat the Comuneros, a league of urban bourgeois rebelling against Charles in Spain. ... Location of PÅerov in the Czech Republic PÅerov is a city in Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... Humanism is a broad category of active ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on our ability to determine what is right using the qualities innate to humanity, particularly rationality. ... The Unity of the Brethren (Czech Jednota bratrská also known under the Latin name as Unitas Fratrum. ...
The crowning glory of the age was the Kralice Bible, translated by the Czech Brethren and published from 1579 to 1593.
Jan Kollár led the Pan-Slavic revival in the early 19th cent., while Karel Hynek Mácha, considered the foremost Czech poet, expressed a Byronic romanticism developed further by the novelist Bo ena N
ech, Jan Neruda, and Joseph V. Sládek and the novels of Alois Jirásek achieved fame, literature was oriented toward the intellectual and the bourgeois.