Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
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Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was a Portuguese Jewish
deaf patients in France
.
Biography
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was born in
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
Royal Society of London
.
A lifelong devotee to the well-being of the Jews of southern France, Portugal, and Spain, beginning in 1749 he was a volunteer agent for the 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
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's Voyage, after learning the language from Ahutoru, the first Tahitian to sail aboard a European vessel.[2]
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
Société Générale du Crédit Mobilier
.
References
- S2CID 143721222. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
- ISBN 9780520261143.
- Salgueiro, Emílio (2010). Jacob Rodrigues Pereira : homem de bem, judeu português do séc. XVIII : primeiro reeducador de crianças surdas e mudas em França. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. ISBN 9789723112115.
