Hugo Schütz von Holzhausen
Hugo Damian Ignatz Freiherr Schütz zu Holzhausen (born July 31, 1780 in Camberg ; † June 22, 1847 in Wiesbaden ) was the founder of the first deaf-mute school in the Duchy of Nassau , today's Freiherr von Schütz School in Bad Camberg .
Life
Hugo Schütz von Holzhausen was the son of Camberger Oberamtmann Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen (1729–1794) and his wife Anna Lioba, born Freiin von Hohenfeld. He had been deaf from an illness since he was 6 months old . He shared this fate with three of his brothers (the parents had 22 children in total).
Since his father was a wealthy man, Hugo was lucky enough to be able to attend the Vienna Institute for the Deaf and Mute, founded in 1779 , from 1788 to 1797 . In the lessons of Johann Friedrich Stork and Joseph May, he learned not only sign language but also written language and general education. Together with his brother, the diplomat Friedrich August Schütz von Holzhausen , he traveled through Europe.
When he returned to Camberg, he taught his three deaf brothers. Word of his ability got around, and inquiries soon reached him asking if he could teach other students. In 1810 he took on his first student, Philipp Schickel from Würges . In 1818, 18 children attended his private institute. The classrooms were in the Amthof .
At the time the private institute of Baron Schütz von Holzhausens was founded, there was no other school for the deaf in the Duchy of Nassau. On August 13, 1819, the ducal state government recommended to the state ministry to convert the institute into a "ducal Nassau institute for the deaf and dumb". This proposal was followed, and with a rescript of November 9, 1819, the "Herzoglich-Nassauisches Institut for the deaf and dumb" was established. Hugo Schütz von Holzhausen was appointed (unpaid) director of the school and a councilor .
The opening took place on June 15, 1820. In the first year the number of students rose from 12 to 25.
As the school grew, the pedagogical teaching changed. While it was common at the end of the 18th century for the deaf to teach the deaf in sign language, the focus of the pedagogical concept has now been to teach the pupils the spoken language despite their disabilities . Naturally, Hugo Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen could not do this due to his lack of language skills. In 1828 he asked to be dismissed from office due to "poor health". The ducal government complied with this request on March 22, 1828. However, he was dismissed without a pension.
In 1820 he married Margarete Abel (* March 7, 1788 in Limburg; † March 10, 1840) in Idstein, the daughter of Wilhelm Abel and Klara Weimer. Their son Friedrich Damian Schütz von Holzhausen (1821-1853) was briefly a member of the Nassau state parliament in 1848 and 1852.
After leaving school, he lived as a pensioner for 20 years. His grave is in the main cemetery in Wiesbaden.
Honors
The Freiherr von Schütz School is named after him.
In 1903 a memorial was erected to the school's founder. It consists of a granite base on which a bronze relief is attached and which is crowned by a bust of the baron. The bust was lost in the turmoil of World War II in 1943. It was replaced by a new bust after the war. The board shows Schütz as a teacher, to whom a boy and a girl look up. The inscription quotes Proverbs Sal. 31, verse 8:
"Open your mouth for the mute"
See also
literature
- Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. 2nd Edition. Wiesbaden 1992. ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , item 4007, p. 731
- Rosel Jung: The history of the school for the deaf and the hearing impaired in Camberg, Ts 160 years of education and training in the Freiherr-von-Schütz-Schule, one of the oldest institutions for the hearing impaired in German-speaking countries and the oldest in Hesse, 3rd exp. Ed., 1980, ISBN 3-87460-025-4
Web links
- Schütz von Holzhausen, Hugo Damian Ignaz Freiherr. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütz von Holzhausen, Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schütz von Holzhausen, Hugo Damian Ignatz Freiherr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | School founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1847 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |