According to Cotton Mather, Comenius was asked by Winthrop to be the President of Harvard University, this being more plausibly John Winthrop the Younger than his father since the junior Winthrop was in England; but Comenius moved to Sweden instead.
Segundo Cotton Mather, Winthrop pediu a Comenius que fose o presidente da Universidade Harvard, sendo máis plausible que fose John Winthrop o Novo que o seu pai, xa que aquel estaba en Inglaterra; en vez diso, Comenius marchou a Suecia.