PHILOSOPHER

John Amos Comenius

1592 - 1670

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John Amos Comenius (; Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren (direct predecessor of the Moravian Church) before becoming a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Amos Comenius has received more than 850,688 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). John Amos Comenius is the 48th most popular philosopher (up from 49th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Philosopher.

John Amos Comenius is most famous for being the father of modern education. He was a Czech philosopher, theologian, and pedagogue. His work is considered to be the foundation of modern education.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Amos Comenius ranks 48 out of 1,267. Before him are Rajneesh, Laozi, Empedocles, Origen, Protagoras, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are Lucretius, Hannah Arendt, Anaxagoras, Plotinus, Michel Foucault, and Thomas More.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1592, John Amos Comenius ranks 1. After him are Shah Jahan, Hong Taiji, Pierre Gassendi, Wilhelm Schickard, Gerard van Honthorst, Jacques Callot, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Catalina de Erauso, Peter Snayers, and Saib Tabrizi. Among people deceased in 1670, John Amos Comenius ranks 1. After him are Frederick III of Denmark, Henrietta of England, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Louis Le Vau, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Salomon van Ruysdael, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Giovanna Garzoni, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, John Amos Comenius ranks 7 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Franz Kafka (1883), Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), and Jan Hus (1369). After him are Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), and Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, John Amos Comenius ranks 1. After him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), Karl Kautsky (1854), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), Theodor Gomperz (1832), František Tomášek (1899), and Tomáš Halík (1948).

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