What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 17 August 2022.

Krásova was built in 1885.

Jan Krása was a merchant from Prague, who was an alderman for the New Town from 1390 to 1413.

A fervent supporter of Jan Hus, he was one of the leaders of an uprising in Wrocław in 1418, where seven councillors were killed by local craftsmen.

On 1 March 1420, a papal bull was published by Pope Martin V, ordering Sigismund of Luxembourg, who had become King of Bohemia in 1419, to launch a crusade again the Hussites.

On the 15th, Sigismund sentenced Krása to death in Wrocław. He was burned at the stake.

Conflict between the Hussites and Catholics, already at war since the previous year, accelerated, with the Battle of Vítkov Hill taking place less than three months later.

Material on Krása is relatively thin in the ground – his only Wikipedia page is in Polish, and consists of three sentences. But he gets a pretty long street, so, you know, swings and roundabouts.