HEINICKE, SAMUEL (1727-179o), the originator in Ger many of systematic education for the deaf and dumb, was born on April I o, 1727, at Nautschutz, Germany, and died at Leipzig on April 30, 1790. In 1768, when living in Hamburg, he success fully taught a deaf and dumb boy to talk, following the methods prescribed by Amman in his book Surdus loquens, but improving on them. Recalled to his own country by the elector of Saxony, he opened in Leipzig, in 1778, the first deaf and dumb institution in Germany.