Comenius biography
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John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer
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John Amos Comenius (;[1]Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March – 15 November )[2] was a Czech[3][4]philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.[5][6] He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren (direct predecessor of the Moravian Church) before becoming a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. As an educator and theologian, he led schools and advised governments across Protestant Europe through the middle of the seventeenth century.
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John Amos Comenius
The great bronze statue of John Amos Comenius () on Moravian's campus depicts him as a fierce old man. It may reflect Comenius's reaction to being driven from one home after another by religious wars and persecution, watching his first wife and their two children die under refugee conditions, and being continually misled bygd false hopes of returning to his homeland. But it may be an expression of his enduring rage at the educational conditions of his time, a rage he never directed at students, but always at the difficulties they faced in learning.
Throughout his life he tried to improve the ways students were taught. His first success in this area was a beginning Latin textbook, Janua Linguarum Reserata ("The Gate of Languages Unlocked"), published in Much later in life, he showed that he still had the needs of beginners on his mind, producing the first-ever children's picture book, Orbis Pictus ("The World Illustrated"), published in Both these books became best
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Early Background and Education
Comenius was born on March 28, in Moravia. His family belonged to the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brethren), which was a branch of the Czech Reformation movement begun in Inspired by the ideas of Petr Chelčický (c – c) and Jan byggnad (c – ) they strove for radical piety and a return to a Christ-like simplicity of life. Due to their interaction with the Reformation ideas of the time, the community gradually developed into a Protestant denomination, standing theologically between Lutheranism and Calvinism.
Comenius’ life was marked by a series of particularly difficult afflictions, which significantly shaped both his theology and pedagogy. At the age of twelve (in ), Comenius lost his parents and two sisters, probably from the plague, and had to live with one of his other sisters and her family. As a thirteen-year-old boy Comenius experienced the destructiveness of war – as a consequence of the religious conflict between the Hungarians (Calvini