Reflection of the Work of J. A. Comenius in Croatia

Abstract

Introduction A more noticeable interest in Comenius’s work in Croatian pedagogic milieu was recorded at the end of 1850s, roughly ten years after the establishment of the first public teacher school in Zagreb in 1849. The first Croatian pedagogical journal Napredak appeared in 1859 and teacher associations were being established since mid-1860s with the purpose of organising, providing solidarity and educating their members. The last three decades of the nineteenth century were a period of emancipation, affirmation and systematic organisation of teacher education and position. Many pedagogical journals were launched and Croatian translations of European pedagogical texts published. That was the environment in which books by John Amos Comenius were also translated, having remained the only Croatian translations of his work so far. However, the first translation of one of his works has escaped the attention of Croatian historians of pedagogy and is not mentioned in any of the existing texts about Comenius in Croatia.