Antonio Magarotto

Antonio Magarotto (30 June 1891 in Pojana Maggiore – 10 May 1966 in Rome) was an Italian educator, founder of the Ente Nazionale Sordi (ENS) [1][2] and rector of the Padua Deaf institute. His son Cesare Magarotto founded the World Federation of the Deaf.[3]

Biography

Born in Pojana Maggiore, Magarotto became deaf at age three because of a meningitis. He was sent to a deaf school, the Tommaso Pendola Institute in Siena where he learned to speak and lipsread.

When he moved to Padua, he founded the Deaf Association of the Veneto Region. In the year of 1923, he obtained from the Mussolini government a law that enabled the deaf and blind people to attend elementary schools.[4][5]

In 1932, on the day of Saint Anthony of Padua, together with his deaf friends, he founded the Italian National Agency for the Deaf where he was president from 1932 to 1950.

Honors

Streets in five Italian cities were named in honor of Magarotto: Poiana Maggiore,[6] Padua,[7] Rome,[8] Albano Terme[9] and Alcamo.

References

  1. ↑ "Storia dei Sordi - di tutto e di tutti circa il mondo della sordità". Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  2. ↑ "Il fondatore". Magarotto.it. 1923-12-31. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  3. ↑ Mathur, Gaurav; Napoli, Donna Jo (10 December 2010). Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language. p. 336. ISBN 9780190453510. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  4. ↑ "PTOF ISISS ANTONIO MAGAROTTO : AA.SS. 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019". Cercalatuascuola.istruzione.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  5. ↑ "Home". Magarotto.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  6. ↑ "Le vie più cercate attorno a Via Antonio Magarotto a Pojana Maggiore". Tuttocitta.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  7. ↑ "Google Maps". Google.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  8. ↑ "Google Maps". Google.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  9. ↑ "Google Maps". Google.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
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