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Definition of Jan Amos Komensky
1. Noun. Czech educational reformer (1592-1670).
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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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