Who is Johann Amos Comenius from Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction and what is their importance?

Johann Amos Comenius was a Moravian Pansophist educator who advocated universal and international education. Comenius lived from 1592-1670 during post-Reformation's intense religious intolerance and persecution of the Moravian Brethren. He was born during the Thirty Year's War between Catholics and Protestants that was settled by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Comenius attended school in Uhersky Brod, a town in Moravia and the universities of Herborn and Heidelberg. He returned to Moravia in 1616 to be ordained minister of Brethren and became pastor and school principal of Fulnek two years later. In war years 1620 to 1627 and later, he was persecuted.