Laurent Clerc
Organization founder
1785 – 1869
Who was Laurent Clerc?
Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" by generations of American deaf people. He was taught by Abbe Sicard, at the famous school for the Deaf in Paris, Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb on April 15, 1817 in the old Bennet's City Hotel, Hartford, Connecticut. The school was subsequently renamed the American School for the Deaf and in 1821 moved to its present site. The school remains the oldest existing school for the deaf in North America.
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- Born
- Dec 26, 1785
La Balme-les-Grottes - Also known as
- Louis Laurent Marie Clerc
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris
- Died
- Jul 18, 1869
Hartford
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on July 23, 2013
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