Manuel Ramírez de Carrión

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Manuel Ramírez de Carrión (baptized January 10, 1579 ; † 1652 ) was a deaf-mute teacher. He is considered one of the first “ deaf and dumb ” educators .

De Carrión continued the approaches begun by Pedro Ponce de León by teaching the deaf Luis de Velasco, third of three deaf sons of the Spanish nobleman Juan Fernández de Velasco y Tovar.

De Carrión wrote the book “Miracles of Nature”, which was first published in 1599 in Madrid , then again in 1622 in Montilla in the printing works of the Marques de Priego and in 1629 in Córdoba . It contained "Two Thousand Secrets of Nature", which were presented in alphabetical order. It was here that Carrión first developed the idea, which was revolutionary for the time, that “deaf and dumb people” are only deaf and do not produce sounds because they cannot hear them themselves. Therefore it is possible to teach them to speak with a special technique. What this technique consisted of was not revealed in the book.

It is believed that de Carrión tried to keep the price of his services high by keeping his methods secret. However, these were plagiarized in 1620 by Juan Pablo Bonet, who lived as a secretary in the household of de Velasco y Tovar, in “Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a ablar los mudos” as his own work.

For the construction of the library of the Marques de Priego in Montilla and also for Filiberto Amadeo, Prince of Savoy , Carrión was from King Philip III. awarded with an honorary title. King Philip IV later sent Carrion to Italy to look after the son of Princess de Carignam. Here the traces of the end of Carrión's life and the exact date of his death are lost.

literature

  • JM Ballesteros: Curso elemental de instrucción de sordo-mudos. Madrid: Impr. Del Colegio de Sordo-mudos y Ciegos, 1863.
  • F. Fernández y Villabrille: Diccionario usual de mímica y dactitología. Madrid, 1851
  • La Enseñanza de sordo-mudos y de ciegos de España. , Madrid: Hernando, 1873.
  • A. Gascón Ricao: Historia de la educación de los sordos en España , Madrid, 2004.
  • Cayetano Casanovas: La Sordomudez ante la historia y la pedagogía. , Barcelona, ​​pp. 193- ?.
  • The Deaf experience: classics in language and education , edited by Harlan Lane; Cambridge, 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Carrión, Manuel Ramírez de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deaf-mute educator
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 10, 1579
DATE OF DEATH 1652