!!!Guggenmoos, Gotthard

Guggenmoos, Gotthard, b. Stoetten/Auerberg (Germany), May 5, 1775, 
d. Hallein (Province of Salzburg), Jan. 29, 1838, private 
teacher, from 1812 worked with children suffering from impaired 
hearing and speech impediments, in 1829 opened in Salzburg the first 
school for the mentally impaired in German-speaking countries. despite 
enormous success this had to be closed in 1835 for financial reasons.

!Literature
K. Wagner, G. G. und seine Lehranstalt in Hallein und 
Salzburg, in: Mitteilung der Gesellschaft fuer Salzburger Landeskunde 
58-59, 1918-1919.



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