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What happened to the manuscripts of John Amos Comeniusās Consultation?
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John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius, oil on canvas by JĆ¼rgen Ovens, 1650ā70; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
John Amos Comenius devoted his final years to completing his great work, Consultation (or A General Consultation Concerning the Improvement of Human Affairs). Although he managed to publish parts of the manuscript during his lifetime, he died in 1670 before the work was finished. He requested that his close associates publish the remainder of the manuscript after his death, but they failed to do so.
Consequently, the manuscripts were lost for over two centuries. They were eventually rediscovered in 1935 in an orphanage in Halle, Germany.1