Heinrich Keller (pedagogue)

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former Schlieren rectory from 1737

Heinrich Keller (born February 18, 1728 in Zurich , † July 18, 1802 in Schlieren ) was a Reformed pastor and first teacher of the deaf and dumb in Switzerland .

Life

Heinrich Keller grew up in Zurich as the son of the weighing master Hans Rudolf Keller and Anna Maria Nüscheler . He studied theology at the Carolinum in Zurich and was ordained in 1750 . In 1759 he was elected to the reformed pastorate in Schlieren.

Inspired by the movement for the well-being of the deaf and mute and the beginnings of teaching the deaf and mute, he founded the first school for the deaf and mute in his rectory in Schlieren in 1777. He had visited Charles-Michel de l'Epée in Paris. He began with the upbringing of two deaf children, whom he privately taught in a group with other equally disabled children. Speaking and listening ( lip reading ) played the main role in his lessons. Based on his experience, he suggested in his book of 1786 that the main emphasis in education for the deaf should be on spoken language .

Fonts

  • Heinrich Keller et al .: Meditatio de pia et circumspecta in tradendis sanctioribus disciplinis sectanda simplicitate . Printer Gessner Offizin, Zurich 1748–1754
  • Heinrich Keller et al .: Dissertatio metaphysica qua realis mundi corporei existentia contra idealistas defenditur . Dissertation High School Zurich, 1750 Printer Orell & Co., Zurich 1750
  • Heinrich Keller, Johann Konrad Ulrich: Attempt on the best teaching method to teach the deaf and mute . Orell, Gessner, Füssli & Co., Zurich 1786 (reprinted in "Organ" in 1888)

literature

  • Karl Otto Hunziker : Prehistory and beginnings of the elementary school system in Switzerland, 1882, pages 287–290
  • Eduard Kolb: The deaf and dumb and deaf and dumb in old Zurich: Pastor Heinrich Keller in Schlieren , Tschudy Druck 1961
  • Armin Löwe : Deaf education in: Solarová, Svetluse [Ed.] History of special education. Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983
  • Armin Löwe: Education for the hearing impaired internationally. History - countries - people - congresses. An introduction for parents, teachers and therapists of hearing impaired children. Schindele Verlag, Heidelberg 1992
  • Markus Wyss, Heinrich Keller: The founder and director of the first deaf-mute institute in Switzerland Pastor Heinrich Keller from Schlieren: his life and his teaching method - viewed from a didactic and technical methodological point of view from today's perspective , 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Löwe: Deaf education in: Solarová, Svetluse [Hrsg.] History of special education. Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pastor and deaf teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1802
Place of death Streaks