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HEINICKE, SAMUEL (1727-1790)

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HEINICKE, SAMUEL (1727-1790)

HEINICKE, See also:
SAMUEL
SAMUEL (1727-1790) , the originator in See also:

Germany of systematic See also:

EDUCATION

education for the See also:

DEAF

deaf and dumb, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

APRIL

April 1727, at Nautschutz, Germany. Entering the electoral bodyguard at See also:

DRESDEN

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

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 See also:

GREAT

great that he determined to devote himself entirely to this See also:

WORK

work. The outbreak of the Seven Years' See also:

War upset his plans for a See also:

time. Taken prisoner at See also:

PIRNA

Pirna, he was brought to Dresden, but soon made his See also:

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 See also:

HAMBURG

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

Amman in his See also:

BOOK

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

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 See also:

Saxony, he opened in See also:

LEIPZIG

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

DEATH

death, which took See also:

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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