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PHILOSOPHER

John Amos Comenius

1592 - 1670

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John Amos Comenius (; Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren 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 800,095 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). John Amos Comenius is the 49th most popular philosopher (up from 53rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 9th 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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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Amos Comenius ranks 49 out of 1,081. Before him are Sun Tzu, Plutarch, Michel de Montaigne, Origen, Al-Farabi, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Karl Popper, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Lucretius.

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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, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Jacques Callot, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Catalina de Erauso, Peter Snayers, and Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1670, John Amos Comenius ranks 1. After him are Henrietta of England, Frederick III of Denmark, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Louis Le Vau, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Salomon van Ruysdael, Bartholomeus van der Helst, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, Giovanna Garzoni, and Niccolò Zucchi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, John Amos Comenius ranks 6 out of 973. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Hus (1369), Gustav Mahler (1860), and Antonín Dvořák (1841). After him are Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Václav Havel (1936).

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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), Vilém Flusser (1920), Jan Patočka (1907), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Egon Bondy (1930).

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