John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius (1592 to 1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian, born in the Moravian lands of the Bohemian Crown and best remembered as the father of modern education. He became the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren, the direct predecessor of the Moravian Church, and spent most of his life as a religious refugee, working in the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, England, the Netherlands and Hungary. In philosophy he took up the Baconian aim of organizing all human knowledge and became a leader of the pansophic movement, holding that knowledge is born from nature and nature from God. He died in Amsterdam in 1670 and was buried at Naarden.