How were John Amos Comenius’s lost manuscripts rediscovered in 1935?

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Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius — John Amos Comenius John Amos Comenius, oil on canvas by Jürgen Ovens, 1650–70; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The manuscripts of John Amos Comenius, which included his significant work Consultation, were lost following his death in 1670 after his associates failed to publish them as he had requested. These documents remained missing for over two centuries until they were rediscovered in 1935 in an orphanage located in Halle, Germany.1