In Sárospatak , Hungary , a teacher 's college is named after him , which belongs to the University of Miskolc . Comenius ' name has been given to primary schools in several German cities , including Bonn , Grafing , and Deggendorf . In Skopje , North Macedonia the Czechoslovak government built a school after a catastrophic 1963 earthquake and named it after Comenius ( Jan Amos Komenski in Macedonian ) . In Poland , the Comenius Foundation is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the provision of equal opportunities to children under 10 years of age . In 1919 Comenius University was founded by an act of parliament in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia , now in Slovakia . It was the first university with courses in the Slovak language
earthquake
1963 Skopje earthquake
John Amos Comenius