biography
| name: |
Gallaudet, Thomas (Hopkins)
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pronunciation:
[galuhdet]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1787–1851)
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| biography:
| Educationist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Yale University, and became interested in the education of the deaf. He learned sign language in Europe, and went on to establish the American Asylum for Deaf-mutes in Hartford, CT (1816). Following retirement (1830), New York University appointed him its first professor for the philosophy of education. |
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