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valentin haüy wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 life 2 legacy 3 see also 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links toggle the table of contents valentin haüy 28 languages مصرى azərbaycanca български dansk deutsch esperanto español eesti euskara suomi français magyar հայերեն bahasa indonesia ქართული 한국어 nederlands polski português română русский shqip svenska тоҷикӣ türkçe українська اردو 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia founder of the first school for the blind for other people with the same name see haüy disambiguation valentin haüy valentin haüy born 13 november 1745 saint just en chaussée oise france died 18 march 1822 1822 03 18 aged 76 paris france known for founder of institut national des jeunes aveugles the first school for the blind relatives rené just haüy valentin haüy pronounced aɥi 13 november 1745 18 march 1822 was the founder in 1785 1 2 of the first school for the blind the institute for blind youth in paris now institut national des jeunes aveugles or the national institute for the young blind inja in 1819 louis braille entered this school life edit statue at the institut national des jeunes aveugles haüy was born into a family of weavers his father a full time loomer also held the job of ringing the angelus bells in a local premonstrant abbey the abbey monks educated valentin and he became a skilled linguist speaking ten different languages of the day he also studied ancient greek and hebrew in 1783 he gained the title interpreter to the king louis xvi in 1786 he was the interpreter of the king to the admiralty and the city hall he was a member of the office of writing 3 haüy s impulse to help the blind started in 1771 after he stopped for lunch in a cafe on the place de la concorde paris there he witnessed an ensemble of people from the quinze vingts hospice for the blind being mocked during the religious street festival saint ovid s fair they were given dunce caps oversized cardboard glasses and told to play their instruments which resulted in a cacophony of noises he decided to found a school with charles michel de l épée 3 in may 1784 at saint germain des prés he met a young beggar françois lesueur who became his first student he developed a method of raised letters to teach lesueur to read and compose sentences he made rapid progress and haüy announced the success in september 1784 in the journal de paris then receiving encouragement from the french academy of sciences 3 with the help of the philanthropic society haüy founded the institute for blind youth institution des jeunes aveugles in february 1785 building on the philanthropic spinning workshop for the blind it received the support of louis xvi and became the royal institution of blind children on 26 december 1786 its purpose was to educate students and teach them manual work spinning and letterpress during the french revolution it was taken over by the state on 28 september 1791 it became the national institute of blind workers in a celestine monastery valentin haüy was active in the political life of his time and was secretary of the national constituent assembly elections of 1792 then civil commissioner he was arrested on 5 prairial iii 24 may 1795 and he was released on 11 by the committee of public safety arrested again on 20 by the national convention he was released on 19 fructidor he joined the panthéon club under the french directory under the french consulate he was listed as a terrorist in 1802 he was retired from management of blind asylum and granted a pension in february 1802 he started a private school in the rue sainte avoye in september 1806 he moved to st petersburg to found a school at the request of alexander i of russia 3 he returned to paris in 1817 to live with his brother rené just haüy who is considered a founder of modern mineralogy 3 grave of valentin haüy and rené just haüy he is buried with his brother rené in père lachaise cemetery in paris legacy edit in 1889 maurice de la sizeranne created an association dedicated to helping the blind and visually impaired named for him see also edit louis braille musée valentin haüy slate and stylus history fr association valentin haüy maria theresia von paradis musée valentin haüy references edit site par défaut historique valentin haüy www inja fr in french archived from the original on 18 october 2017 retrieved 18 october 2017 weygand zina 2009 les aveugles dans la société française abstract revue d éthique et de théologie morale in french 256 65 85 doi 10 3917 retm 256 0065 issn 1266 0078 1 2 3 4 5 herbermann 1913 attribution this article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain herbermann charles ed 1913 valentin haüy catholic encyclopedia new york robert appleton company further reading edit mellor c michael 2006 louis braille a touch of genius national braille press isbn 9780939173709 louis braille a touch of genius weygand zina 2009 the blind in french society from the middle ages to the century of louis braille translated by emily jane cohen stanford california stanford university press isbn 9780804757683 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to valentin haüy wikiquote has quotations related to valentin haüy valentin haüy association musée 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