r asylum in
Germany, and settled at length at Amsterdam, where be died in 1671,
occupied with literary pursuits until his last hour. According to
Adelung, he wrote not less than ninety-two works, of which only
fifty-four have come down to us; and among these, twenty are in the
Bohemian language. His style has a classical perfection; the contents
of his works are manifold, and have mostly lost their interest for
the present age.[37] In the last years of his life Comenius is said to
have devoted himself to a mystical interpretation of the prophetic
Scriptures; he discovered in the Revelation of St. John the state of
Europe, as it then was; awaited the millennium in the year 1672; and
believed in the far-famed Bourignon, as an inspired prophetess.

A few names only among the emigrants require to be mentioned as
writers, after Comenius. They may find their place here: Paul
Stransky, who was exiled in 1626 and found an asylum as professor at
Thorn, wrote a history of Bohemia in Latin in 1643, which was
translated and accompanied with supplements and corrections by
Cornova, in 1792. Elsner, pastor of the Bohemian Brethren at Berlin,
and Kleich at Zittau, printed works for religious instruction and
devotional exercises for Protestants.

The greater part of what was written during this period proceeded from
the Slovaks in Hungary, a nation related to the Bohemians in race and
language, who after the Reformation had adopted the Bohemian dialect
as their literary language.[38] Although also constantly struggling
against oppression and persecution, the Protestants in Hungary were
not formally annihilated, as in Bohemia; but belonged rather to the
tolerated sects, so called. A certain degree of activity in behalf of
their brethren in faith was consequently allowed to them; especially
later under Maria Theresa. We meet among them, with hardly any other
than theological productions, or works for religious edification.

The two pastors Krman and Bel, who both died towards the middle of the
eighteenth century, men of no inconsiderable merit as Christians and
as scholars, prepared a new edition of the Bohemian Bible, and also
translated several works of Luther, Arndt, etc. Ambrosius, their
cotemporary, wrote a commentary on Luther's catechism, and several
other useful religious works. G. Bahyl published an introduction to
the Bible, a history of the symbolical books, and assisted Comenius in
his _Orbus pictus_. Matthias Bahyl became