Julius Reinhold Friedlander | |
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| Born | 1803  |
| Died | 1839 |
Julius Reinhold Friedlander (1803–1839) was a German-American educator. He was the founder of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, which later became the Overbrook School for the Blind.
Julius Reinhold Friedländer (equivalently "Friedlaender") was born 21 April 1803, in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia and now in Poland.
In 1832 Friedlander founded the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, becoming its superintendent. In 1838, he and Samuel Gridley Howe published embossed versions of the Book of Ruth and the Book of Proverbs.
Friedlander's other preserved works include:
Friedlander died on March 17, 1839. After his death, the artist John Neagle painted a portrait of him from a death mask.
Shortly after the death of J. R. Friedlander, the students of the Institution for the Blind assembled, and resolved that an obituary should be prepared for their friend and benefactor, and the task was devolved upon Henry J. Gray, of Virginia, one of the blind, a lad in his fifteenth year. We have already had occasion to notice the poetic composition, and the musical writings of this wonderful youth; we now invite attention to his notice of his beloved teacher. We copy it from the Student's Magazine, published in the Institute, and printed with raised letters for the blind. ...
... Julius Reinhold Friedlander who fought for Greek independence from Turkey before taking over as the first superintendent of the School for the Blind in ...
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