“The Utrecht Link”: The Previously Unknown Correspondence between Jan Amos Comenius and Johann van Almeloveen

0503474 - FLÚ 2019 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Lelková, Iva - Slavíková, Marcela
“The Utrecht Link”: The Previously Unknown Correspondence between Jan Amos Comenius and Johann van Almeloveen.
Acta Comeniana. -, 31/55 (2017), s. 63-92. ISSN 0231-5955
R&D Projects: GA ČR GB14-37038G
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Jan Amos Comenius * Johann van Almeloveen * Dutch republic of letters * early modern scholarly correspondence * correspondence edition
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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This article and an attached edition deal with newly discovered correspondence between Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670) and Johann van Almeloveen (1616-1678). It summarizes Comenius’s stay in the Netherlands, his contacts and surviving letters with Dutch correspondents. Johann van Almeloveen was an active member of the republic of letters as his own correspondence attests. His life and relationship to Comenius and his circle of acquaintances is covered in detail in this paper. The edition includes six Latin letters exchanged between Almeloveen, Comenius and his son Daniel from 1667 to 1670, five of which are edited here for the first time. All letters are provided with an English translation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0295297