Pierre Gorman

Pierre Gorman ( born October 1, 1924 in Melbourne, † October 1, 2006 ) was a deaf Australian educator and psychologist.

Life

Gorman was a well-known deaf because he has not used for sign language, but for spoken language education, supported by medical and technological aids. This has not always won him friends in the deaf community. The son of Sir Eugene Gorman (chief magistrate in Australia and Consul General of Greece) and those coming from Paris Marthe Gorman obtained according to the will of the parents first academic degree as an agricultural scientist, then as an educationist. The separation of the parents brought Pierre Gorman to Europe, where in 1960 he reached the world at Cambridge University as the first deaf person a PhD. The title of his dissertation was " Social and psychological problems of the deaf community in English society ." For the Royal National Institute of the Deaf ( RNID ) in London, he then worked as a librarian and built the first globally recognized library of works about hearing impairments on.

Then Gorman has continued and developed further developed by Sir Richard Paget Gorman Sign System (grammar system ). Then Gorman was appointed to the Victorian School for Deaf Children in Melbourne, which at that time was under the direction of Harry Powell. Shortly thereafter, he accepted a Professorur at Monash University near Melbourne. In 1983, he went into retirement. As a guest lecturer and orator, he was still active until 2005. In 1980 his biography in the London Collins Publishers.

For the Melbourne University archived Pierre Gorman his collection of books and his collection of old photos related to Cambridge. From initial 600 titles titles were counted at the end of 3000, which are publicly accessible, and document Gorman's ties to Cambridge University and specifically to the local Corpus Christi College. On December 2, 2000 Pierre Gorman received for this service the legal title of Honorary Doctor of the University of Melbourne. In addition, Pierre Gorman has a two- annually to be awarded prize for the promotion of the public library of the State of Victoria and donated the Gorman Foundation founded in 1990 that promotes young scientists. He was winner of several international awards.