Petr Chelčický

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15th century Bohemian Christian radical

WritersLived 1390 to 1460 · aged 70

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Petr Chelčický was a Czech Christian spiritual leader and author in 15th-century Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Bohemian Reformation.

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Painting of Chelčický instructing others to not repay evil with evil (1918, by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic)

Several streets in the modern Czech Republic are named Chelčického after Chelčický. This street in Teplice has a church dedicated to Bartholomew the Apostle.

Writers born in the 1390s 6

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Petr Chelčický was a Czech Christian spiritual leader and author in 15th-century Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the Bohemian Reformation. Chelčický inspired the Unitas Fratrum, who opposed transubstantiation and monasticism, insisting on pacifism and the primacy of scripture. There are multiple parallels with the teachings of the Anabaptists and Chelčický. Czech Baptists have also expressed continuity with the Bohemian reformation by identifying with Chelčický.