José María Moralejo
José María Moralejo, better known as the Cura of Brihuega, (Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid, October 2, 1774 - Madrid, circa 1849) Spanish liberal writer and educator of deaf-mutes of the first half of the nineteenth century. p> Biography
Born in Colmenar de Oreja, south of the province of Madrid, he received a PhD in Theology from the University of Alcalá de Henares and was a priest of the church of San Juan in Brihuega; say they fought for the patriots in the War of Independence. He accompanied, as President of the Patriotic Society of the Cross of Malta to Rafael del Riego in his triumphant entry to Madrid in 1820. He is author of a Plan of reform of the clergy, 1821, and was secretary of the Landaburian Patriotic Society from the 30 of December 1822, during the Liberal Triennium. Pascual Madoz says that he published some pamphlets with the pseudónimo El Pobrecito Trabajador, in refutation of the Philosopher Rancio. In 1823 he had to emigrate, through Gibraltar, to England, where he resides until 1831; moves to Lille (France), where he collaborates in the education of deaf-mutes in the school founded and directed by Jean Massieu; in 1835 he was in Paris, where he published Manuel de conversations françaises et espagnoles, Paris, 1835. Pascual Madoz points out that in his exile he observed that the Institute of the Deaf-Mutes of Ghent (Belgium) had no method in his teaching that made them speak and understand by sight, so he oriented learning in that sense. In 1837 he moved to Barcelona and published with Luis Rubió First principles of General Grammar applied to the Castilian language, 1838, in which the authors are called directors of the Eastern Alliance in favor of the Deaf and Moody and teachers of the School of Deaf-Mutes of the Board of Commerce (Lonja de Barcelona). They run an Institute of Deaf-Mutes there. They also publish First elements of the Castilian language. Introduction to the art of reading, Barcelona, 1838, Ideolójico tree. General knowledge. In 1840 he moved to Madrid, where he was appointed Substitute or Interim Professor of Theology at the Literary University of Madrid (now the Complutense University of Madrid). until 1847. In 1848 he applied for a severance pension, which was apparently denied. In 1849 news of him is lost, although both Menendez and Pelayo and Vicente de la Fuente say that he died poor and crazy.
French and Spanish Conversations Manual [1].
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