Author:Jan Žižka

Jan Žižka
(c. 1360 – 1424)

Jan Žižka

Works

• letter to the brave captains and citizens of the town of Domážlice (1421)
• letter to the people of Prague (1422)
• Žižka's regulations of war (1423)

Ascribed works

• Alleged author of the speech to his soldiers, see "A Notable Oration of Zisca to his Soldiers", in The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, vol. 3 (1837), originally narrated by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in Historica Bohemica (1458)
• Used to be considered as an author of the war hymn Ye Soldiers of our God, which had most probably been written by Hussite priest Jan Čapek
• Alleged author of his own epitaph, which is in fact of later origin, see "The Epitaph of John Zisca, the valiant Captain of the Bohemians", in The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, vol. 3 (1837)

Works about Žižka

• "The Story of Zisca" in The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, vol. 3 (1837)
• "Ziska, John," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Žižka, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ziska, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Poetry

• ODE on J. Žižka von Trotznow by Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer
• John Žižka by Nikolaus Lenau