Comenius, John Amos, forerunners, 15; relation to Vives, 16; agreement with Bacon, 23; influenced by Ratke, 28; obligations to Bateus, 36; birth at Nivnitz, 38; ancestry, 39; classical training at Prerau, 40; studies at Herborn, 42; matriculation at Heidelberg, 44; teacher in an elementary school, 44; ordination as a minister, 45; exile in the Bohemian mountains, 46; flight from Bohemia, 47; literary connections, 48; first call to Sweden, 49; call to England, 53; English friends, 54; failure of English schemes, 55; second call to Sweden, 56; relations with Lewis de Geer, 57; location at Elbing, 60; ordination as senior bishop of the Moravian Brethren, 61; ecclesiastical ministrations, 62; call to Hungary, 63; organization of the schools at Saros-Patak, 64; return to Poland, 69; flight to Amsterdam, 71; complete edition of his works, 72; death at Amsterdam, 76; burial at Naärden, 76; marriage and children, 77; alleged call to presidency of Harvard College, 78; portraits, 81; the _Great didactic_, 83–108; the _School of infancy_, 109–122; the _Janua_, 123–129; the _Atrium_ and the _Vestibulum_, 129–139; the _Orbis pictus_, 130–138; _Methodus novissima_, 138–141; influence on modern educators, 142; on Francke, 143–146; on Rousseau, 146–149; on Basedow, 149–153; on Pestalozzi, 153–158; on Fröbel, 158–162; on Herbart, 162–164; permanent influence, 165–171; bibliography, 177–180. Comenius-Blätter, 172. Comenius-Gesellschaft, 170. Comenius-Stiftung, 169. Compayré, Gabriel, the _Orbis pictus_, 137; sketch of Comenius, 177. Cordier, Maturin, condition of education in France in the 16th century, 4. Daguet, A., sketch of Comenius, 180. Davidson, Thomas, relation of Rousseau to Comenius, 146. De Garmo, Charles, Fröbel and Comenius, 162. De Geer, Lawrence, aid to Comenius, 71. De Geer, Lewis, patron of Comenius, 57. De Schweinitz, Edmund, account of the _Unitas fratrum_, 178. Discipline of schools, 89, 106–108. Dunster, Henry, president of Harvard College, 78. Durie, John, connection with Comenius, 54. Elbing, the Prussian home of Comenius, 60. _Émile_, 146. Erasmus, on classical learning, 8, 24. Fables, 117. Fiske, John, meaning of infancy, 86. Food of children, 116. Francke, August Hermann, studies at Kiel and Leipzig, 143; organization of the Pædagogium at Halle, 144; attitude toward classical learning, 145. Fröbel, Friedrich, obligations to Comenius, 159; studies with Pestalozzi, 159; views on the education of women, 161. Galileo, opposed by the humanists, 9. Geography, 116, 138. Gindely, Anton, life of Comenius, 178. Girls, education of, 88. Gotha, Ratke’s experiment at, 31. _Great didactic_, 36, 63–108. Groos, Karl, on play, 118.