ABSTRACT
The study is devoted to the person of Jakub Holub, a burgher and successful entrepreneur during the Hussite movement. Although he grew up in small towns (Kamenice, Tišnov), in the 1430s he became one of the richest bourgeois of the largest Moravian city of Brno. Holub skilfully and pragmatically adapted his business strategies to the current war situation; he made money from trade, sometimes from the production of his own rural property (beer, wine), and later used his accumulated capital for loans. Yet he was never involved in the administration of the town, he made no donations to the church, and his growing wealth contrasts sharply with the fact that he moved into a small house in a poor part of town.
