Alexander Melville Bell

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Alexander Melville Bell

Alexander Melville Bell (born March 1, 1819 in Edinburgh ( Scotland ), † August 7, 1905 in Washington, DC ) was a researcher in the field of physiological phonetics and author of numerous books on lecturing art. As a professor of the art of speaking and lecturing, he developed the first universal phonetic writing system, a phonetic transcription or a phonetic alphabet that he called Visible Speech . Together with Alexander John Ellis and Isaak Pitman, he is considered to be one of the founders of the English school of modern phonetics. In Germany, his works have been received especially since the 1880s.

He was the father of Alexander Graham Bell .

Life

He studied under his father, Alexander Bell, a well-known rhetorician and lecturer, and became his chief assistant. He taught speaking and lecturing at the University of Edinburgh from 1843 to 1865 and at the University of London from 1865 to 1870 . In 1868, 1870 and 1871 he taught at the Lowell Institute in Boston .

In 1870 he became a lecturer in philology at Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario ( Canada ) before moving to Washington in 1881. There he devoted himself entirely to teaching the deaf and mute, for which he developed a phonetic transcription that he called Visible Speech .

Bell died in 1905 at the age of 86 and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington.

Publications

Hubbard Bell-Grossman Pillot Memorial, where Bell is buried, at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC
  • Steno-Phonography (1852)
  • Letters and Sounds (1858)
  • The Standard Elocutionist (1860)
  • Principles of Speech and Dictionary of Sounds (1863)
  • Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics (1867)
  • Sounds and their Relations (1881)
  • Lectures on Phonetics (1885)
  • A Popular Manual of Visible Speech and Vocal Physiology (1889)
  • World English: the Universal Language (1888)
  • The Science of Speech (1897)
  • The Fundamentals of Elocution (1899)

literature

  • John Hitz: Alexander Melville Bell . Washington 1906.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory Notebook, 1875-1876 . Retrieved July 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Alexander Melville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philologist and co-founder of modern phonetics
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1905
Place of death Washington, DC