Jan Sladký Kozina

Jan Sladký Kozina (10 September 1652 – 26 November 1695) was a Czech revolutionary leader of the Chods peasant rebellion.

On 9 May 1678, aged 25, he married Dorota Pelnářová, took over the ancestral farm U Kozinů, and took his place in the middle yeomanry.

He could neither read nor write, but made his name by his speeches, in which he drew attention to the abuses of the time, and became the spokesman for farmers' woes.

In Újezd u Domažlic a memorial to him was set up; his place of execution is marked by a plaque just inside what is now the main entrance to the Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzeň.

Alois Jirásek wrote the book Psohlavci ("The Dogheads"), which was about the Chodové peoples and young Jan's struggles; this was later turned into an opera of the same name by Karel Kovařovic.