Laurent Clerc

Laurent Clerc

teacher
pedagogue
🇺🇸United States

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American deaf history. He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, on April 15, 1817, in the old Bennet's City Hotel, Hartford, Connecticut.

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1785 – 1869
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Background

Born in
La Balme-les-Grottes
Educated at
National Institute of Deaf Youth of Paris

Timeline

  • 1785

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    Birth
  • 1869

    Died

    Death

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