Julius Reinhold Friedlander | |
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Born | 1803 |
Died | 1839 (aged 35–36) |
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.[1]
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. [2]
In 1832 Friedlander founded the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, becoming its superintendent.[3] In 1838, he and Samuel Gridley Howe published embossed versions of the Book of Ruth and the Book of Proverbs,.[4][5]
Friedlander's other preserved works include:
Friedlander died on March 17, 1839.[7] After his death, the artist John Neagle painted a portrait of him from a death mask. [8]