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SAMUEL HEINICKE (1727-1790)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SAMUEL

SAMUEL
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SAMUEL HEINICKE (1727-1790)
HEINICKE (1727-1790) , the originator in

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Germany of systematic

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EDUCATION

education for the

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DEAF

deaf and dumb, was

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BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of

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APRIL

April 1727, at Nautschutz, Germany . Entering the electoral bodyguard at

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DRESDEN

Dresden, he subsequently supported himself by teaching . About 1754 his first deaf and dumb

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PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil was brought him . His success in teaching this pupil was so

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GREAT

great that he determined to devote himself entirely to this

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WORK

work . The outbreak of the Seven Years'

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War upset his plans for a

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time . Taken prisoner at

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PIRNA

Pirna, he was brought to Dresden, but soon made his

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ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape . In 1768, when living in

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HAMBURG

Hamburg, he success-fully taught a deaf and dumb boy to talk, following the methods prescribed by

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Amman in his

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BOOK

book Surdus loquens, but improving on them . Recalled to his own

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country by the elector of

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Saxony, he opened in

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LEIPZIG

Leipzig, in 1778, the first deaf and dumb institution in Germany . This school he directed till his

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DEATH

death, which took

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PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place on the 3oth of April 1790 . He was the author of a variety of books on the instruction of the deaf and dumb .

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Thank God for this man. My two severe-profound children can talk and be part of society. I am so grateful for this man and all the people who believed in his method. Thanks to Tucker-Maxon Oral School in Portland, Oregon.

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