Per Aron Borg
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Pär Aron Borg was a Swedish
pedagogue and a pioneer in the education for the blind
and deaf.
Borg was a teacher. After having seen a play where a deaf boy communicated by gestures, he was inspired to create a manual alphabet. He began to educate deaf and blind students regularly in 1808.
He founded Allmänna institutet för Blinda och Döfstumma (The Public Institute of the Blind and Deaf) in Stockholm
in 1809 with protection from the Queen, Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte. His perhaps most famous student was Charlotta Seuerling
. The school had deaf teachers, and the education was given by sign language. He made a trip to Portugal
in 1823-28, were he founded a school for the deaf; thereby, Portugal was given the same manual alphabet as Sweden.
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
pedagogue and a pioneer in the education for the blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
and deaf.
Borg was a teacher. After having seen a play where a deaf boy communicated by gestures, he was inspired to create a manual alphabet. He began to educate deaf and blind students regularly in 1808.
He founded Allmänna institutet för Blinda och Döfstumma (The Public Institute of the Blind and Deaf) in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
in 1809 with protection from the Queen, Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte. His perhaps most famous student was Charlotta Seuerling
Charlotta Seuerling
Charlotta Seuerling or Charlotte Seuerling , was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling...
. The school had deaf teachers, and the education was given by sign language. He made a trip to Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
in 1823-28, were he founded a school for the deaf; thereby, Portugal was given the same manual alphabet as Sweden.