HUSS (John), a celebrated divine and martyr, born at Hussenitz in Bohemia, in 1376. He was liberally educated in the university of Prague, and in 1400 was made minister of the church of Bethlehem in that city. He adopted the opinions of Wickliffe, and preached with great zeal against the errors of the church of Rome: for which he was sentenced to the stake by the council of Constance, in 1415. He was burned with much formality, after having been degraded; and his ashes were thrown into the Rhine. His writings, which are numerous and learned, were collected into a body, on the invention of PRINTING.