Czech educator and writer, bishop of the Unity of the Brethren. In Czech known as Jan Ámos Komenský.
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Johan Amos Comenius
Works edit
- The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (1631); translated by Count Lützow (1901)
- Janua linguarum reserata (1631); The Gate Of Languages (1643) translated by Thomas Horn and John Robotham (external scan)
- School of Infancy (1632); translated by Will Seymour Monroe (1893)
- The History of the Bohemian Persecution (1632); translated by anonymous (1650)
- Rules of Life (1645, English translation 1865)
- The Last Will and Testament of the Dying Mother The Unity of Brethern (1650)
- Naturall philosophie reformed by divine light, or, A synopsis of physicks, 1651 (external scan)
- Orbis Pictus, "The Visible World in Pictures" (1658); translated by Charles Holland Hoole (1705) (external scan); edited by Charles William Bardeen (1887) (external scan)
- The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius (1657), translated by Maurice Walter Keatinge (1896)
- Church constitution of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren: the original Latin, with a translation, notes, and introduction (1660); translated by Benjamin Seifferth (1866), (external scan)
Works about Comenius and his works edit
- John Amos Comenius: his life and educational works by Simon Somerville Laurie, 1884 (external scan)
- Comenius (1592-1671) in Essays on educational reformers by Robert Hebert Quick, 1890 (external scan)
- Comenius: his life and principles of education by Ossian Herbert Lang, 1891 (external scan)
- Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform by Will Seymour Monroe, 1900 (external scan)
- Pioneers of modern education 1600-1700 by John William Adamson, 1905 (external scan)
- John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) in Modern educators and their ideals by Tadasu Misawa, 1909 (external scan)
- Comenius and his Great didactic in Great educators of three centuries; their work and its influence on modern education by Frank Pierrepont Graves, 1912 (external scan)
Encyclopedia articles edit
- "Comenius, Johann Amos," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
- "Comenius, Johann Amos," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Comenius, Johann Amos," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Comenius, Johann Amos," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Journal and magazine articles edit
- "The Ideal of Universal Education" in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (3) (1919)
Poetry edit
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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