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Great Didactic

Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)

Czech Republic β€” ca. 1629

Pathbreaking 17th-century pedagogy for people of all classes and genders: A fascinating copy of Comenius’ Czech Didactics with the author’s own handwritten revisions

  1. Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue, Protestant theologian and member of the Bohemian Unity of the Brethren

  2. The Czech Didactics was written in 1627–1632 and first printed in 1849; the Latin Didactica magna appeared in 1657

  3. In 33 chapters, the author describes how everyone can learn everything, regardless of their status or gender

Great Didactic

MS II B 8 Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)
Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)
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Great Didactic

Comenius’ Czech Didactics opens a fascinating window onto a pioneering vision of education: Learning should be accessible to everyone. The philosopher, educator, and theologian advocated teaching girls and boys across social classes and placed humane, comprehensible instruction at the heart of his work. The copy preserved in Prague’s National Museum was made around 1630. The author’s handwritten revisions and notes bring us remarkably close to his working process. The Czech text was first printed in 1849 and should be distinguished from the Latin Didactica magna, published in 1657.

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Alternative Titles
Didactica Magna
Universale Omnes Omnia Docendi Artificium Exhibens -- The Great Didactic
The Whole Art of Teaching all Things to all Man
Didaktika českÑ
Didactica bohemica
Size / Format
298 pages / 33.5 Γ— 20.0 cm
Date
ca. 1629
Language
Czech
Content
The Great Didactic by Comenius
Previous Owners
Archive of St. John's church at Leszno
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Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)
#1 Didaktika českÑ. Didactica bohemica
Sumptibus Pragopress – Prague, 1970
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#1 Didaktika českÑ. Didactica bohemica

Sumptibus Pragopress – Prague, 1970
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Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)
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Publisher: Sumptibus Pragopress – Prague, 1970
Commentary: 1 volume by Stanislav KrΓ‘lΓ­k
Languages: Czech, English, French, German, Russian
Complete color reproduction of the original β€œGreat Didactic” at its original size. The facsimile aims to reproduce the original’s appearance, feel and physical characteristics as faithfully as possible. The pages are trimmed to the original format. The binding may differ from the original’s present-day binding.
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