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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

1787 - 1851

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum (at Hartford) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons", but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet is the 1,186th most popular philosopher (up from 1,213th in 2019), the 8,680th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,238th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 1,186 out of 1,267. Before him are William Chittick, Bas van Fraassen, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Imran N. Hosein, Iris Marion Young, and Edward Abramowski. After him are Quentin Meillassoux, Hector Boece, Hicetas, Max Black, Dariush Shayegan, and Philip Pettit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 53. Before him are Andrés Quintana Roo, Samuel Cunard, Josephine Kablick, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, Edward Blore, and José Tomás Ovalle. After him are Thomas Hodgskin, Emma Willard, John J. Crittenden, and Mary Russell Mitford. Among people deceased in 1851, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 48. Before him are William Nicol, Andrés Quintana Roo, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Giovanni Berchet, Mizuno Tadakuni, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. After him are Sylvester Graham, Baji Rao II, Levi Woodbury, Samuel George Morton, and Joanna Baillie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 8,682 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Franks (1944), Stephen Colbert (1964), Arthur L. Newton (1883), LA Knight (1982), Rose Marie (1923), and Judith Krantz (1928). After him are Milton Sills (1882), Topher Grace (1978), Doris Humphrey (1895), Roger Stone (1952), Bernard Nathanson (1926), and Cassandra Wilson (1955).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ranks 65. Before him are Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), Patricia Hill Collins (1948), Richard Posner (1939), Michael Hardt (1960), William Chittick (1943), and Iris Marion Young (1949). After him are Alexander Berzin (1944), William Alston (1921), Marshall Berman (1940), Robert Brandom (1950), James Burnham (1905), and Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929).

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