ID
0248
Nationality
French
Occupation
Teacher
Author
Summary
Born at Louhans, Burgundy; deafened in early childhood. Student at age 8, then teacher after graduation, at the Paris Institute. Wrote numerous books and pamphlets; received the French Legion of Honor, 1849. His 1840 short history of deaf education, Les Sourds-Muets Avant et Depuis l'Abbe de l'Epee (The Deaf Before and Since the Abbe de l'Epee) is published, in English translation, in The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education (1984), p.161-203.
References
Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences, p.37-39; Gallaudet Encyclopedia, vol.1 p.141-143; Notable Deaf Persons, p.51-53; Looking Back, p.83, 133-142; Discoveries, p.1; American Annals of the Deaf, vol.21 no.2, April 1876, p.101-2; vol.31 no.4, Oct. 1886, p.295; The Frat, vol.37 no.3, Oct. 1939, p.3.
Dates
1803-13 July 1886