Oskar Picht
Oskar Picht (born May 27, 1871 in Pasewalk ; † August 15, 1945 in Rehbrücke ) was the inventor of a braille machine for blind people.
Life
Picht was the son of the master baker Wilhelm Picht and his wife Hermine. The house where he was born was at Marktstrasse 3 and was destroyed in April 1945. He attended the city school in Pasewalk and later the boys' school. From 1886 to 1891 he was at the state teacher training college in Pölitz .
From 1891 he was a teacher in Marienthal for three years , then in Bahn in the Greifenhagen district . Then Picht decided to become a teacher for the blind . He acquired the necessary knowledge from 1897 to 1899 at the State Institute for the Blind in Berlin-Steglitz. After completing his training, he worked there for a few years.
In 1899 Picht developed the first usable German braille sheet-fed machine (for paper sheets; hence the name), for which he received the first utility model on May 6, 1901 . By 1932, Picht registered nine other utility models.
On April 24, 1902, he married Margarete Charlotte Conrad, with whom he had three children.
In 1910 he developed the first German braille strip writer (short steno machine - for rolled paper strips as a medium). In 1912 (other sources say 1910) Picht became director of the Provincial Facility for the Blind in Bromberg , 1920–1933 Picht was director of the State Facility for the Blind in Berlin-Steglitz. In 1924, Picht was the first German to give a radio lecture on the blind. He had the first blind film Our blind people and their world shot . After retiring, Picht moved to the Potsdam-Rehbrücke home for the blind in 1934.
Oskar Picht died at the age of 74. His final resting place is in the cemetery of the Brandenburg community of Nuthetal in the Bergholz-Rehbrücke district , where today there is only an honorary gravestone.
Awards and honors
- Gold medal at the International Typewriter Exhibition in Venice, 1907
- Cross of Merit for Aid to the Blind, 1917
- Honorary member of the blind association for the provinces of Brandenburg and Kurmark, 1933
- Renaming of the Pasewalker Gymnasium to Oskar-Picht-Gymnasium Pasewalk, November 1999
- Since 2000, the Oskar Picht Prize has been awarded to high school graduates for outstanding social and academic achievements.
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Picht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Oskar-Picht-Gymnasium in Pasewalk
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duty, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Inventor of the blind typewriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasewalk |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Deer Bridge |