Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

French abbé and instructor of the deaf

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1742

Place of Birth: Le Fousseret, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 10-May-1822

Profession: writer, Catholic priest, pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

  • Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a French abbĂ© and instructor of the deaf. Born at Le Fousseret, in the ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the AbbĂ© de l'ÉpĂ©e, succeeded him at a leading school for the deaf which ÉpĂ©e had founded in Paris.
  • He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England, and invited him to visit the school. Sicard's chief works were his ElĂ©ments de grammaire gĂ©nĂ©rale (1799), Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and TraitĂ© des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808).
  • The AbbĂ© Sicard managed to escape any serious harm in the political troubles of 1792, and became a member of the Institute in 1795, but the value of his educational work was hardly recognized till shortly before his death at Paris.In 1803 Sicard became a member of the AcadĂ©mie française, occupying Seat 3 as the successor to the François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, who was a diplomat.

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