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Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was a Portuguese Jewish teacher, educator and academic. He was the first teacher of deaf patients in France.
A lifelong devotee to the well-being of the History of the Jews in France, Jews of southern France, History of the Jews in Portugal, Portugal, and History of the Jews in Spain, Spain, beginning in 1749 he was a volunteer agent for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Portuguese Jews in Paris. In 1777, his efforts led to Jews from Portugal receiving the right to settle in France.
In 1772, he published a Tahitian language, Tahitian vocabulary for Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's ''Voyage'', after learning the language from Ahutoru, the first Tahitians, Tahitian to sail aboard a European vessel.
In 1876 Pereira's remains were transferred from the Cimetière de la Villette (where he had been buried the year in which that cemetery was opened) to that of the Cimetière de Montmartre.
In Bordeaux the street "Rodrigues-Pereire" was named in his honor.
His grandsons, the Péreire brothers, Émile Péreire (1800–1875) and Isaac Péreire (1806–1880), were well-known French financiers and bankers during the second empire who encouraged the construction of the first railway in France in 1835. In 1852, they founded the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier.
Biography Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
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Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was a Portuguese Jewish teacher, educator and academic. He was the first teacher of deaf patients in France.
Biography
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was born in Berlanga, Badajoz, Berlanga (Badajoz), Spain, a descendant of a Portuguese Crypto-Judaism, Crypto-Jewish family from Chacim, Trás-os-Montes Province, Trás-os-Montes. His Catholic sacraments#Baptism, baptismal name was Francisco António Rodrigues, and his parents were João Lopes Dias and Leonor Rodrigues Pereira. In about 1741 he and his mother and siblings moved to Bordeaux and returned to Judaism; he adopted the name Jacob and his mother Abigail Rivka Rodrigues. Pereira formulated signs for numbers and punctuation and adapted Juan Pablo Bonet's manual alphabet by adding 30 Handshape, handshapes, each corresponding to a sound instead of to a letter. He is therefore seen as one of the inventors of manual language for the deaf, though he did not invent it in its entirety. The manual alphabet has roots dating back to medieval Catholic monasteries, though Pereira did adapt the Spanish manual alphabet published (though plagiarized) by Juan Pablo Bonet to better fit the French language. He is sometimes miscredited with being the first person to teach a non-verbal deaf person to speak, when in fact, Pedro Ponce de León is more reliably credited as the first back in the sixteenth century. In 1759, he was made a member of the Royal Society of London.
A lifelong devotee to the well-being of the History of the Jews in France, Jews of southern France, History of the Jews in Portugal, Portugal, and History of the Jews in Spain, Spain, beginning in 1749 he was a volunteer agent for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Portuguese Jews in Paris. In 1777, his efforts led to Jews from Portugal receiving the right to settle in France.
In 1772, he published a Tahitian language, Tahitian vocabulary for Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's ''Voyage'', after learning the language from Ahutoru, the first Tahitians, Tahitian to sail aboard a European vessel.
In 1876 Pereira's remains were transferred from the Cimetière de la Villette (where he had been buried the year in which that cemetery was opened) to that of the Cimetière de Montmartre.
In Bordeaux the street "Rodrigues-Pereire" was named in his honor.
His grandsons, the Péreire brothers, Émile Péreire (1800–1875) and Isaac Péreire (1806–1880), were well-known French financiers and bankers during the second empire who encouraged the construction of the first railway in France in 1835. In 1852, they founded the Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier.
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Biography Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Jacob Rodrigues 1715 births 1780 deaths 18th-century French inventors Portuguese educators French educators Fellows of the Royal Society Deaf culture Pereire family 18th-century French Sephardi Jews Jewish Portuguese writers Spanish emigrants to France Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 18th-century Portuguese people 18th-century Sephardi Jews Educators of the deaf French people of Portuguese-Jewish descent