Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard
Roch- Ambroise Sicard Cucurron ( born September 19 or September 20, 1742 in Le Fousseret, Haute -Garonne, † May 10, 1822 in Paris) was a French clergyman and Deaf teachers.
He was appointed by the Bishop of Bordeaux to the director of the school for the deaf in Bordeaux in 1786. After the death of the Abbé de l' Epée found in 1789, a competition held by the successor in the leadership of the institution of the National Sourds - muets de Paris, which is regarded as the first school for the deaf world. The competition featured the candidates - all teachers for deaf children in different schools - each have their educated students before. Since his student Jean Bordeaux the Massieu emerged as the best from this exercise, Sicard won the competition and became head of the School of Paris.
The current conservative Abbé Sicard in 1792 provided by the revolutionaries before the Vollstreckungsrat, but fought free of Jean Massieu in a moving input. After this incident, Sicard went temporarily into exile in London.
In 1803 he became a member of the Académie Française, as the successor of the diplomat François -Joachim de Pierre de Bernis on the " third Chair " of the Academy.
Sicard published several works and treatises for teaching deaf students, including 1808 from the 2 -volume dictionary of sign language Théorie de signes.
1815 Abbé Sicard held by the mediation of the French Minister of Police Joseph Fouché public lectures in London, accompanied by his former student and current teacher - colleague Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc. Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc met during your stay in London the American clergyman Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was investigating methodologies for teaching deaf children.
With the verb sicardiser his name went into the French language - means " verbose with many details to explain " goes back to the fact that he was known for his extremely long versions in Paris.