Comenius
By: edited by Vratislav Bušek ; translations from Czech by Káča Polácková ; cover design by Ladislav Sutnar.
Contributors: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.; Bušek, Vratislav, ed.
Publisher: Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; cze
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670 -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A symposium held at the 5th Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America at New York University School of Law, New York City, November 13-15, 1970 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of Jan Amos Comenius [Komenský] on November 15, 1670."
Table of contents: title: Bušek, V. Introduction.; title: Odložilík, O. Jan Amos Komenský.; title: Bradbrook, B. R. Comenius in England.; title: Čapek, M. Comenius and the moral problem of exile.; title: Hujer, K. Comenius and his astronomical world view.; title: Krempl, R. K. The Trinitary System in the works of Comenius.; title: Pollak, O. J. John Amos Comenius "Letters to Heaven."; title: Šebor, M. M. Comenian Pansophia: Geographic comments.; title: Spinka, M. Comenius' ideal of World Church.; title: Stárková, V. The Return of the first great exile.; title: Stranský, H. Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and Jan Amos Comenius; title: Two reformers in education.; title: Sviták, I. Comenius the dramatist.; title: Urzidil, J. Comenius meeting with Hollar in London.; title: Velinský, S. J. Why Comenius is a great personality.; title: Vrána, K. The Ecumenical sense of culture in J. A. Comenius.; title: Bušek, V. Comenius' "Sorrowful."