John Amos Comenius

28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670

• Biography
• Bibliography of his works
• Bibliography of publications about his life and activity
• Photo gallery
• Establishment bearing his name
• Full-text documents
• Virtual book exhibition

28 March 2017 marked the 425th anniversary of the birth of John Amos Comenius (1592 – 1670), a Czech pedagogue-humanist, philosopher, initiator of the new progressive pedagogical system, public figure, statesman, author of the project on the reform of the Swedish education system and methodology of Latin language teaching, organiser of schools, theoretician of the united school education, classroom form of teaching, didactic principles (‘golden rule of didactics’ is a well-known principle of visualisation), new teaching methods, and author of Great Didactic, The School of Infancy, General Consultation on the Improvement of Human Affairs, and textbooks on physics, astronomy, and languages, etc.