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William van Praagh
British educator (1845–1907)
In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Praagh, not Praagh.
William van Praagh (11 June 1845 – 28 June 1907) was a British educator.
He pioneered the Oralist method for the education of the deaf in England.
Biography
Wolf Saloman van Praagh was born into a Jewish family in Rotterdam in 1845.[4]
From 1859,[5] he studied under David Hirsch, director of the Rotterdam School for the Deaf and Dumb, who had introduced the oral system of teaching the deaf from Germany into Holland.[6][1] In 1866, van Praagh was invited to manage the newly estalished Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home in London.[7] He took the name William upon settling in England.[4]
Van Praagh's "Pure Oral System" attracted the attention of Anne Thackeray[8] and other members of the press.[9] In 1871 he published the pamphlet Plan for the Establishment of Day-Schools for the Deaf and Dum