Johann Theodor Jablonski [SEP] place of death
Johann Theodor Jablonski
Johann Theodor Jablonski (15 December 1654, in Danzig – 28 April 1731, in Berlin) was a German educator and lexicographer who also wrote under the name Pierre Rondeau.
Life.
Johann Theodor Jablonski was the son of Peter Figulus from Jablunka in Moravian Wallachia, and the older brother of reformer Daniel Ernst Jablonski. He soon traveled to Amsterdam where he was educated by his grandfather John Amos Comenius. After the death of Comenius, he went back to Germany and became a student in the in
son preferred the Bohemian surname Jablonski (Jablonský) which was based on his father's birthplace – Jablonné nad Orlicí. He was the younger brother of Johann Theodor Jablonski. His maternal grandfather, Johann Amos Comenius (d. 1670), was the last bishop of the Unity. Having studied at Frankfurt (Oder) and at Oxford, Jablonski entered upon his career as a preacher at Magdeburg in 1683, and then from 1686 to 1691 he was the head of the Brethren college at Polish Leszno (), a position which had