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Comenius - Man as the image of God and the conception of education

The labyrinth of a life Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), a committed Christian, a teacher in turmoil Landscape of Moravia Czech Republic Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) was born on March 28, 1592 in Nivnice, near Uhersky Brod in South Moravia (now Czech Republic) into a family of the Church of the Unity of the Bohemian Brethren, the spiritual heiress of John Hus. After university studies in Germany in Herborn ( 1611-1613) and Heidelberg (1613-1614), he taught at the Latin school in Prerov and then in Fulneck where he was appointed pastor of the German-speaking community. Under religious persecution At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, the Czech Protestants are defeated by the the Austrian Emperor Habsburg at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague in 1620. This is followed by a fierce Catholic Counter-Reformation: the political leaders are executed, the Protestant faith is banned, people are forced to convert to Catholicism or to emigrate. Comenius loses his possessions, his books, his parish and, above all, his wife and two daughters are killed by the pestilence. He remarried two years later. In 1623, in hiding, he wrote The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart, an allegory that explains his conception of the world. Emigrant and traveller through Europe In 1628, he left his country and never returned. He will live through Europe, a complicated life as an emigrant. He experienced the miseries and dangers caused by war and religious hatred. Read the full article

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