Albert Gutzmann
Albert Gutzmann (born December 19, 1837 in Groß Gluschen , Western Pomerania ; † May 27, 1910 in Teupitz ) was a German teacher for the deaf and dumb. At his instigation, a public speech healing system was introduced in Berlin .
Life
Born in 1837 in West Pomerania, he attended a teacher training college in Köslin and initially worked as a teacher in Bütow . From there he attended a course in Berlin in 1865 for the special schooling of the deaf ("deaf and dumb") that had been created for several years. In 1873 he moved with his family to Berlin and became the first teacher for the deaf and dumb at the newly founded municipal school for the deaf and dumb on Blumenstrasse, which was director from 1897 to 1910. In 1909 he was appointed Royal School Councilor.
Certainly based on a preoccupation with deaf-mute teachers with other language problems in schoolchildren since the 1830s, Gutzmann was also active in this field and in 1879, based on the theses of the physician Adolf Kussmaul, published a book with the title The stuttering and its thorough elimination by a methodically ordered and practically tested procedure - instructions for teachers and parents as well as for use by adults . From the foreword: “On the contrary, stuttering in its extremely widespread distribution, through its depressing mind and body of the individual and its civic usefulness as well as its social freedom and independence, is so drastic and disruptive that its successful Combat appears to be a national task of eminent importance. "
After the book On Language Disorders and How to Fight Them in Schools was published in 1884, he began to train speech therapy teachers in his exercise therapy method. Sensitized through his activities, 155,000 Berlin schoolchildren were checked for language disorders in 1886 and 1,550 people with speech disorders were recorded.
Influenced by his preoccupation with speech disorders, his son Hermann Gutzmann studied medicine and later founded the medical field of phoniatry . Together with him, he published the journal “Medical-Pedagogical Monthly for All Speech Medicine” from 1891.
Several schools in Germany are named after him, three in Berlin alone: Primary school and language therapy school in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , the former POS for the deaf (now a school for the deaf) in Berlin-Mitte and the Berlin-Gesundbrunnen primary school.
literature
- Heinz Zehmisch: Lecture on the occasion of a ceremony of the Berlin Charité in memory of Hermann Gutzmann sen. on January 29, 2005 (online PDF; 2.55 MB).
- Manfred Gross: 30 years of speech therapy in Germany. Renate Gross Verlag, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3926468076
Web links
- Literature by and about Albert Gutzmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Albert Gutzmann at Open Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gutzmann, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German deaf-mute teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß Gluschen , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1910 |
| Place of death | Teupitz |