Deaf Education, 1700 - 1800
1776 - 1839: Pär Aron Borg (SE)
In 1809, Pär Aron Borg founded Allmänna institutet för döfstumma och blinda å Manilla (Public Institute of the Blind and Deaf at Manilla; Manillaskolan). The school had deaf teachers, and the instruction was taught in sign language.
1778: First School for the Deaf in Germany, Leipzig (DE)
In 1778 Samuel Heinicke opened the first German public school for the education of the deaf in Leipzig.
Heinicke insisted that lipreading was the best training method because it made his students speak and understand the language as it was used in society.
1779: First School for the Deaf in Austria, Vienna
The first Austrian school for the deaf (Taubstummeninstitut) was established in Vienna in 1779 after a visit by Emperor Joseph II to Abbé de l'Epée's school in Paris.
1779 - 1823: Peter Atke Castberg (DK)
Castberg was provided with a grant from the King of Denmark to study deaf education in Europe for two years (1803 - 1805), including de l'Epée school in Paris.
At his return in 1805, Castberg began teaching eight deaf children, and on April 17, 1807, the King signed the charter for Døvsstumme-Institutet i Kiøbenhavn (The Institute of the Deaf-Mute in Copenhagen).
1785 - 1869: Laurent Clerc, Deaf Teacher of the Deaf
Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf History.
With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, on April 15, 1817.
1786: First School for the Deaf in the Czech Republic, Prague
The Institute for the Deaf was founded on December 7, 1786 in Prague.
From 1787, Karel Berger taught reading and writing with the finger alphabet. He created concepts with the help of characters and deaf and hard of hearing students also learned to articulate.
The real genius of sign language, which was ahead of its time in this area, was Václav Frost. His method was called "Frostr's combined method", also "Czech method" and "Prague", which from today's point of view means that it is a bilingual teaching. Frost used sign language to teach some subjects and, among other things, practiced articulation, reading and writing. He was aware that the deaf needed both.
1790: First School for the Deaf in the Netherlands, Groningen
On April 14, 1790, Henri Daniel Guyot founded the first Institute for the Deaf in the Netherlands.
1792: First Public School for the Deaf in the UK, London
England’s first public institution for deaf children known as ‘London Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor’ was started in London in 1792
1796 - 1874: Andreas Christian Møller, Deaf Founder of the first school for the deaf in Norway
Andreas Christian Møller (born 18 February 1796 in Trondheim, died 24 December 1874) was a Norwegian wood turner and deaf teacher who founded the first school for the deaf in Norway. Andreas Møller is therefore considered the «father of deaf education».