Comenius in England

Abstract

JAN AMOS KOMENSKÝ, the famous Czech philosopher and educationist, better known by his Latinised name, Comenius, was born at Uherský Brod, Moravia, in 1592. He spent a few years at the University of Herborn, in Germany, under Alsted, whose encyclopaedic ideas he was later to develop. Comenius returned to teach for a time in Moravia, but his promising career was interrupted by the Thirty Years' War which began in 1619. As one of the Bohemian Protestants, Comenius went into exile in 1628 and settled at Leszno in Poland, where he taught at the college of the Unitas Fratrum and wrote some of. his remarkable Latin and vernacular educational works which are still of interest to-day.

Comenius in England: the Visit of Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), the Czech Philosopher and Educationist, to London in 1641–1642; its Bearing on the Origins of the Royal Society, on the Development of the Encyclop"dia, and on Plans for the Higher Education of the Indians of New England and Virginia, as described in Contemporary Documents.

Selected, translated and edited, with an Introduction, and Tables of Dates, by Robert Fitzgibbon Young. Pp. vii + 99 + 12 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932.) 10s. net.