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Turkey |
Mevlana Rumi (1207 – 1273) was a Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Being a product of the Islamic Persian culture that dominated the 'whole of eastern lands of Islam', the present day Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats.
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Czech Republic |
John Amos Comenius (1592 – 1670) was a Czech speaking Moravian teacher, educator and writer. He served as the last bishop of Unity of the Brethren and became a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. He is considered the father of modern education. He lived and worked in many different countries in Europe, including Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, the Holy Roman Empire, England, the Netherlands and Royal Hungary.
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Spain |
Carmen de Burgos was born in Almeria (Spain) in 1867. Writer of novels, essays, biographies, translations, travel books, conferences , journalist and teacher. She is one of the most interesting personalities of the first third of this century. Was Republican activist, a woman concerned about education and advocate for women's rights. Carmen traveled a lot for different countries, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, England, Portugal, Italy and France. She wrote the novel "Dagger of carnations" about a crime that took place in 1928 in Cortijo del Fraile (Almeria), that was a inspiration for the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in his "Blood wedding" play.
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