Definition of Jan Amos Komensky

1. Noun. Czech educational reformer (1592-1670).

Exact synonyms: Comenius, John Amos Comenius
Generic synonyms: Educator, Pedagog, Pedagogue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jan Amos Komensky

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Jamesonia
Jamesonian
Jamestown
Jamestown Canyon virus
Jamestown weed
Jamestown weeds
Jamie
Jamieson
Jamin Lebedeff system
Jamison
Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir
Jan
Jan.
Jan Amos Komensky (current term)
Jan Christian Smuts
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Jan Hendrix Oort
Jan Hus
Jan Mayen
Jan Swammerdam
Jan Tinbergen
Jan Vermeer
Jan van Eyck
Jan van der Meer
Janaki
Jane
Jane-of-apes
Jane Austen

Literary usage of Jan Amos Komensky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"... and from a literary standpoint it must be called classical. The greatest writer of the Brethren was their last bishop. Jan Amos Komensky' (Johann Amos, ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1869)
"The author is supposed to have been Jan Amos Komensky, the author of the well-known children's book, The world in pictures. After the battle of the White ..."

3. The Elizabethan Playhouse: And Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"Perhaps the most striking example is to be found in the Orbis Sensualium Pictus of Jan Amos Komensky, particularly in that edition of the book published in ..."

4. The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown by Hugh LeCaine Agnew (2004)
"The greatest Czech exile was the last bishop of the Unity of Brethren, Jan Amos Komensky. Comenius, as he was known abroad, published in many fields, ..."

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