Alois Sure

Alois Klar, lithograph by Franz Eybl (1834) after a painting by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein , 1823

Alois Klar (born April 25, 1763 in Auscha , Bohemia ; † March 25, 1833 in Prague ) was a Bohemian philologist and one of the founders of the Prague Education Institute for the Blind.

Life

Clearly attended high school in Leitmeritz . In 1779 he came to the University of Prague and received his doctorate in philosophy and the liberal arts . He also studied theology , but was nervous disease by mental overexertion, chose the teaching profession and became a professor at the Gymnasium in Litomerice. He also worked as a high school catechist. In 1793 he appeared in public as a writer. In 1806 he was appointed to the university in Prague, as professor of Greek philology and classical literature . In 1807 he graduated with a doctorate in philosophy. In 1820/1821 Klar was dean of the philosophical faculty. In 1831 he resigned from teaching. In the same year Alois Klar fell ill and did not recover.

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Klar's Institute for the Blind on Prague's Lesser Town

Seal Institute for the Blind Prague, ca.1840

Soon after moving to Prague, Klar came into contact with the blind . At the side of Freiherr von Platzer he was active in the establishment of the Prague Educational Institution for the Blind, was on the board of directors and for a short time led the directorate. In 1832 he founded an association and an institution for the care and employment of adult blind people in Bohemia, based on the model of the Viennese institution. He obtained the information necessary for this through a lively correspondence from Johann Wilhelm Klein . Alois Klar also managed to secure the project financially. He died on March 25, 1833 at the age of 69.

Klar's wife Rosina helped her husband and first looked after blind children in the private educational institution for the blind on the Hradschin and later the residents of the institution for the blind, long after her husband's death.

Works

Alois Klar wrote many essays in scientific and theological journals.

• Memories of the Prague Institute for the poor, blind and visually ill . Prague 1831
• Statutes of the pension and employment institution for adult blind people in Bohemia . Prague 1833 [multilingual]
• Memories from the life of Alois Klar published by Franz Weinold , Prague 1835. This is a detailed biography of Alois Klar.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sure, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 11–14 ( digitized version ).
• Sure Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 369.

Web links

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