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Comenius

Latinized form of Jan Amos Komensky, Moravian educationist.

Comenius

Alternative, Latinized name of Jan Amos Komensky, Moravian pastor and educationist.



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The teachers visited Wales as part of the Comenius Project, a government initiative, named after Johann Amos Comenius, a 17th century Czechoslovakian scholar, who devoted his life to trying to improve the ways students were taught.
Although Grain begins with the New England Primer, first published about 1690, she quickly moves backward in time in order to compare it with its post-Reformation predecessor, Orbis Sensualism Pictus, or The Visible World, by Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the first picture book for children.
 
 
 
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