Coping with Deafness. Monument for Henri Daniël Guyot, Groningen, The Netherlands
Two eminent men who worked in Groningen stand at the cradle of the modern study and rehabilitation of the deaf. The first is the great humanist Rudolph Agricola Phrisius (1444-1485), forerunner and sometime teacher of famous Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. In his De inventione dialectica - an innovative work on logic and rhetoric - Agricola relates how he taught someone who was deaf how to communicate in writing and also orally. The second defender of the deaf is Henri Daniël Guyot (1753-1828); cf my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2128742114/in/photolist-
There are curiously no public memorials to the honor of Agricola in the city of Groningen except for a little street named for him, and a small sculpture in the facade of St Martin's Tower of Agricola holding an organ symbolising the one which he 'built' for the church.
The first memorial monument of any import in Stad is this one of Guyot in the square named for him. Almost immediately after his death in 1828 a public subscription was made and enough money collected to commission two sculptors, Charles (c.1756-1831) and his son Jean François Sigault (1787-1833) of Amsterdam, for that task. They were swift, and the monument was already inaugurated in 1829. On that monument and its iconography see: www.staatingroningen.nl/referentie/331/319/de-erezuil-voo...
This Spring Photo shows it rising above pretty Crocuses. The inset pictures a relief on the other side: it shows bronze Butterflies which signify the everlasting soul of Guyot. they are surrounded by a wreath of ever-living Ivy to demonstrate the undying love for him of his Deaf Students.
Coping with Deafness. Monument for Henri Daniël Guyot, Groningen, The Netherlands
Two eminent men who worked in Groningen stand at the cradle of the modern study and rehabilitation of the deaf. The first is the great humanist Rudolph Agricola Phrisius (1444-1485), forerunner and sometime teacher of famous Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. In his De inventione dialectica - an innovative work on logic and rhetoric - Agricola relates how he taught someone who was deaf how to communicate in writing and also orally. The second defender of the deaf is Henri Daniël Guyot (1753-1828); cf my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2128742114/in/photolist-
There are curiously no public memorials to the honor of Agricola in the city of Groningen except for a little street named for him, and a small sculpture in the facade of St Martin's Tower of Agricola holding an organ symbolising the one which he 'built' for the church.
The first memorial monument of any import in Stad is this one of Guyot in the square named for him. Almost immediately after his death in 1828 a public subscription was made and enough money collected to commission two sculptors, Charles (c.1756-1831) and his son Jean François Sigault (1787-1833) of Amsterdam, for that task. They were swift, and the monument was already inaugurated in 1829. On that monument and its iconography see: www.staatingroningen.nl/referentie/331/319/de-erezuil-voo...
This Spring Photo shows it rising above pretty Crocuses. The inset pictures a relief on the other side: it shows bronze Butterflies which signify the everlasting soul of Guyot. they are surrounded by a wreath of ever-living Ivy to demonstrate the undying love for him of his Deaf Students.