Samuel Gridley Howe (* 10 November 1801 in Boston, the USA; "† 9 January 1876 in Massachusetts) was an American physician, civil rights activist, Philhellene and founder of the first blind school of the USA.

Biography

Howes father Joseph Gridley Howe was ship owner and rope manufacturer, its nut/mother was Patty Gridley Howe. Howe studied medicine to the Harvard Medical School, left 1824 the USA and traveled to Greece, where he was active as the medical profession and a soldier in the following three years with the Greek revolution.

1827 it returned to Boston, where it began to practice. However engaging also here further for the Greeks by it donations collected itself. This presented it personally, when it traveled a second time to Greece. It financed the building of schools, churches and houses in close proximity to Korinth. In the year 1830 it returned to the USA.

1831 it undertook journeys by Europe, in order to convince itself locally of it, what is done for the education by blind ones. Its first goal was Paris, where it new instruction techniques for blind one studied. In the same year it visited Prussia. It went to Berlin and regarded the blind school there. However it led also money for the support of the Polish insurgent ones in East Prussia with itself, which had been collected in co-operation with the America polish Committee, why the Prussian authorities arrested him. After arrest the departure was finally permitted to it into the United States.

1832 created Howe, by its experiences into of Paris in Boston the Perkins School for inspired blind. Already soon it became within this range the prominent expert of the USA and initiated further blind schools in Ohio, threshing floor lake, Kentucky and Virginia.

1843 he married it Julia Ward, which wrote the text later to the "Battle Hymn OF the Republic". Both had 6 children.

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