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Jean-Baptiste Girard
Swiss Franciscan educator (1765-1850)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 December 1765
- Died
- 6 March 1850
- Place of birth
- Fribourg
- Place of death
- Fribourg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean-Baptiste, Grégoire, Melchior, Gaspard, Balthasar
- Family name
- Girard
- Field of work
- pedagogy, Monitorial System
- Occupation
- pedagogue
- Position held
- director of the schools of Fribourg, professor of philosophy
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Awards
- Legion of Honour, Montyon Prize
- archives at
- Cantonal and University Library of Fribourg, Fribourg State Archives, Archives du Couvent des Cordeliers Fribourg, Municipal archive Fribourg, Archives de l'Evêché de Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg
- birth name
- Jean-Baptiste-Melchior-Gaspard-Balthasar Girard
- depicted by
- Monument of Père Girard
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Enciclopedia Treccani, Sapere Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (1908-1930)
- different from
- Jean-Baptiste Girard
- educated at
- Collège Saint-Michel
- influenced by
- Franz Ludwig von Erthal, Immanuel Kant, Philipp Albert Stapfer, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Fribourg
- notable work
- De l'enseignement régulier de la langue maternelle, Cours éducatif de langue maternelle à l'usage des écoles et des familles, Discours sur la nécessité de cultiver l'intelligence des enfants, Mémoire sur l'enseignement religieux de l'école française de Fribourg
- religious name
- Père Girard
- religious order
- Order of Friars Minor
- writing language
- French
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