Jan Amos Komensky

 

 

 

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645),
Marin Mersenne (1588-1648),
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679),
Martin Ruar (1589-1657),
Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655),
Samuel Przypkowski (1592-1670),
Jan Amos Komensky (1592-1670),
Ren� Descartes (1596-1650),
John Milton (1608-1674),
Andrzej Wiszowaty (1608-1678),
Wojciech Bobowski (1610-1675 vel Bobovius, in Turkey).
Samuel de Sorbi�re (1615-1670),
Stanisław Lubieniecki (1623-1675),
Christofer Sand (1644-1680),
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716),
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706),
etc.

"The critical response to the Irenicum Irenicorum was severe, coming from figures as diverse as Comenius, Samuel Przypkowski, Gottfried W. Leibniz, ..." [Internet].

Note   "Apart from the Orbis Pictus of Amos Comenius, no book of this kind found its way into our hands."
(J.W. Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, pt 1. bk. i. As given by M.W. Keatinge, The Great Didactic of Comenius, p. 79).

    * Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Title J. A. Comenii Ianva lingvarvm reserata, cum Graeca versione Theodori Simonii Holsati, innumeris in locis emendata à Stephano Curcellaeo: qui etiam Gallicam novam adjunxit. Publisher Amstelodami : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. Description [24], 266, 238 p. 16 cm. Note Latin, Greek and French in parallel columns; preface in Latin and French.
    * Conatuum Comenianorum praeludia ex bibliotheca S.H. Oxoniæ : Excudebat Guilielmus Turnerus academi?typographus, M.DC.XXXVII. [1637]
    * A reformation of schooles : designed in two excellent treatises, the first whereof summarily sheweth, the great necessity of a generall reformation of common learning : what grounds of hope there are for such a reformation : how it may be brought to passe : the second answers certain objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, and describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow / written ... in Latine by ... John Amos Comenius ... ; and now ... translated into English ... by Samuel Hartlib . London : Printed for Michael Sparke ..., 1642 94 p A translation of his "Pansophiae prodromus" (1639), originally published in slightly different form as "Porta sapientiae reserata" (1637)
    * The great didactic of John Amos Comenius / translated into English and edited with biographical, historical and critical introductions by M. W. Keatinge. [2d ed.] London : A. and C. Black, 1921-1923. 2 v. : ill., port. ; 21 cm. Translation of Didacta magna. "1st ed. pub. May 1896, 2d ed. of text only pub. May 1907, 2d ed. introductions, with additions, pub. Nov. 1910. Reprinted 1921." "The works of Comenius arranged in chronological order of composition": v. 2, p. 309-316. Contents v.1. Introduction.--v.2. Text.

Also
    * Comenius. Ein charakterbild aus den briefen zu bef�rderung der humanit�t, von Johann Gottfried Herder. Publisher Berlin, Weidmann, 1903. Description 15 p. 16 cm. Language German [UC ; not at NYPL]
Note "The Panagersia [by Comenius] excited the admiration of Herder,7 etc."

7 ' Briefen zur Beforderung der Humanitat,' No. 41.

Source : W.M. Keatinge, The Great Didactic, etc>,, London, 1910, p. 95. It looks like the 'briefen' were separate publications and the one on Comenius was the No. 41. This is all I for one could tell (or rather guess) from the material known to me. May the interested expert give some attention to such detail. (WPT).

    * Laurie, Simon Somerville, 1829-1909. John Amos Comenius, bishop of the Moravians: his life and educational works. 3d ed., rev. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1887. 240 p. "Bibliography of the educational works of Comenius [by] C. W. Bardeen": p. 227-260. | New York, B. Franklin [1973] Paging 272 p. illus. 22 cm. Notes "Reading-circle edition." Reprint of the 1892 ed., published by C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N.Y.
[Note   Comenius was a bishop of the Bohemian (i.e. Czech) Brethren ; the Moravian Brethren was an altogether different and distinct organisation which was exclusively German ; there seems to have been an error going on from author to author on this point. (WPT).]
    * Comenius' School of infancy : an essay on the education of youth during the first six years / edited with an introduction and notes by Will S. Monroe. London : Isbister and company, 1897. xvi, 99 p. : port ; 19 cm. Series Heath's Pedagogical Library "Benham's translation, London, 1859 has been to some extent followed, the editor, however, making frequent translations from the German editions (Leipzig, 1875 and 1891) by Julius Beeger and Albert Richter."--p. xii. "Books for mothers and teachers" p. [xv]-xvi. "Bibliography of Comenian literature": p. 91-95. [NYPL] | Boston : D.C. Heath & Co., 1901, c1893. xvi, 99 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 19 cm. [NYPL]
    * Comenius, by M. W. Keatinge ... New York, London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1931. 255 p. front. (port.) illus., facsims. 20 cm. Series McGraw-Hill education classics. "A reprint in a slightly shortened form of the Great didactic, first translated into English by me in 1896."--Pref. "Illustrative pages from the text-books of Comenius": p. [243]-252.
    * The teacher of nations; addresses and essays in commemoration of the visit to England of the great Czech educationalist Jan Amos Komensky Comenius, by Eduard Benes; J. L. Paton, Henry Morris [and others] Edited by Joseph Needham, with a chronological table showing the events in the life of Comenius by R. Fitzgibbon Young and a select bibliography of the works of Comenius by Anna Heyberger (translated by Corinne Barham) Publisher Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press, 1942. Paging vii, 99 p. illus. 22 cm. Contents The place of Comenius in history as a good European, by Eduard Bene丒--Comenius as a pioneer of education, by J. L Paton.--Education and the community, by Henry Morris.--Comenius' visit to England (1641), and the rise of scientific societies in the seventeenth century, by J. D. Bernal.--Comenius and the invisible college (1645-1662) by R. F. Young.--Comenius and Harvard, by J. B. Conant.--Comenius' life and work in its historical setting, by O. Odlo瀒l鷪.--Comenius, the English revolution, and our present plight, by Oskar Kokoschka.--Comenius and confidence in the rational mind, by Dorothea W. Singer.--The social relations of science in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, by J. G. Crowther.--The debt of Europe to Czechoslovakia and to Comenius, by Ernest Barker.
    * Spinka, Matthew, 1890-1972. John Amos Comenius, that incomparable Moravian. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1943. 177 p. 22 cm. First published in 1943. Bibliography: p. 156-[171]
    * Comenius/ Klaus Schaller. - Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973. vii, 110 p.; 20 cm. Series Ertr�ge der Forschung, Bd. 19 Note Ver�ffentlichungen der Comeniusforschungsstelle im Institut f�r P�dagogik der Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum; Nr. 5. Includes bibliographical references.
    * Znajomosc dziel Jana Amosa Komenskiego na ziemiach czeskich, slowackich i polskich od polowy XVII w. do czas�w obecnych / M. Beckova, T. Bienkowski, D. Capkova. Warszawa : Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii Nauki, Oswiaty i Techniki, 1991. 164 p. ; 24 cm. "400-lecie urodzin Jana Amosa Komenskiego." Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-162)

 

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