Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian
Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian (born August 4, 1789 at Pointe-à-Pitre (also written Pointe-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe ; † February 24, 1839 Pointe-à-Pitre) is considered the first hearing person in France, who mastered the sign language of the time like a native speaker. As such, he published mimography in 1825 , which contains a description of the "natural signs" based on the transcription method he developed .
Life
To give his son a high school education, his father sent him from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to France at the age of 12. There he was taken care of by his godfather , the Abbé Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard , the successor to Charles-Michel de l'Epée at the “Institution royale des sourds-muets de Paris” ( Royal Institution of the Deaf-Mute , today: Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris). The Abbé Sicard had the young Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian educated by Abbé Jean-Baptiste Jauffret (1766-1824). After a later brilliant study at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, Bébian devoted himself to the study of teaching methods for deaf students. He followed the pedagogical guidelines of the Abbé Sicard and worked with the deaf teachers Jean Massieu , Ferdinand Berthier and Laurent Clerc .
At the Institution Royale des sourds-muets de Paris , Bébian worked primarily on the further development of pedagogical methods, advocating teaching based on the natural sign language of the deaf. In 1817 he published his first book, Essai sur les sourds-muets et sur le langage naturel , and in 1825 his best-known work, mimography . For his biographical essay Eloge historique de l'abbé de l'Epée (1819) he won the prize of the Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences).
Refusing appointments as director of schools for the deaf in Saint Petersburg and New York City , he founded a similar institution in Paris on the boulevard Montparnasse (Boulevard du Montparnasse). From 1832 to 1834 he was director of the school for the deaf and mute in Rouen . After 1836 he returned to Guadeloupe for health reasons . There he founded a school for blacks.
Fonts (selection)
- Essai sur les sourds-muets et sur le langage naturel , Paris 1817
- Mimography , Paris 1825
- Manuel d'enseignement pratique des sourds-muets , Paris 1827
- L'éducation des sourds-muets mise à la portée des instituteurs primaires et de tous les parents , Paris 1831
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bébian, Roch-Ambroise Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first listener who mastered the sign language of the deaf almost perfectly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1839 |
| Place of death | Pointe-à-Pitre |