Comenius Sentence Examples

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  • But their bishop, John Amos Comenius (1592-1672), held them together.

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  • Komensky (Comenius), a member of the brotherhood, claimed for the members of his church that they were the genuine inheritors of the doctrines of Hus.

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  • In Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia the standard of education - elementary, higher and technical - is excellent, and there are practically no illiterates - a state of affairs attributable to the interest which the Czech nation (imbued with the traditions of Comenius) had ever taken in education.

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  • In the entire republic there are four universities, three Czech and Slovak - the Charles University of Prague, the Masaryk University of Brno and the Comenius University of Bratislava - and one German (at Prague).

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  • The Masaryk and Comenius Universities are new foundations since 1918.

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  • The names of Hus, Chelcicky and Comenius (Komensky) are connected with the pre-Renaissance religious periods.

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  • In 1638 Comenius was requested by the government of Sweden to draw up a scheme for the management of the schools of that country; and a few years after he was invited to join the commission that the English parliament then intended to appoint, in order to reform the system of education.

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  • He visited England in 1641, but the disturbed state of politics prevented the appointment of the commission, and Comenius passed over to Sweden in August 1642.

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  • Devoting himself to the elaboration of his scheme, Comenius settled first at Elbing, and then at Lissa; but, at the burning of the latter city by the Poles, he lost nearly all his manuscripts, and he finally removed to Amsterdam, where he died in 1671.

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  • As a theologian, Comenius was greatly influenced by Boehme.

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  • Comenius also wrote against the Socinians, and published three historical works - Ratio disciplinae ordinisque in unitate fratrum Bohemorum, which was republished with remarks by Buddaeus, Historia persecutionum ecclesiae Bohemicae (1648), and Martyrologium Bohemicum.

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  • The greatest writer of the brotherhood is John Amos Komensky or Comenius (1592-1670).

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  • Many of the numerous devotional and educational writings of Comenius, - his works number 142, - are also written in his native tongue.

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  • Yet we must notice besides Comenius two other writers, both historians, whose works belong to a date later than 1620.

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  • After the deaths of Skala, Slavata and Comenius, no works of any importance were written in the Bohemian language for a considerable period, and the new Austrian government endeavoured in every way to discourage the 19 - use of that language.

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