Gusztáv Bárczi, Kratina

* Nyitraudvarnok, September 13, 1890 – † Budapest, August 9, 1964 / physician, special education teacher, college professor ; ; He obtained a teaching certificate in Léva in 1910. He continued his further studies in Budapest. He first obtained a degree in special education (1913) and then a degree in medicine (1921) from the Pázmány Péter University of Science, but he felt the need to also pass the ENT specialist exam. In 1922, together with Béla Török (1871–1925), he established the School for the Deaf, specializing in the education of the deaf. Until 1942, he taught the blind, the speech impaired, and the mentally disabled in various institutions. At the same time, he completed his medical studies, researched, published, taught at the College of Special Education from 1939, and practiced as a private and school doctor. He participated in professional public life, was a member of the National Council of Special Education Institutes, and served as the president of several professional associations. In the 1920s, he also worked as a lecturer on school hygiene at the National Institute of Public Health. He edited the journals of Siketnéma Oktás. He also became a well-known expert abroad as the director of the State Special Education Institute on Alkotás Street in Budapest. From 1948, he performed his duties as the head of the department of the organizationally independent college, but he continued to play a professional and public role. ; Already in the 1930s, he was a regular speaker at international congresses held in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. His theoretical and systematic activities are also considered, but his scientific research work primarily covered the special education of the hearing and intellectually disabled. He dealt with hearing education and made his observations on a wealth of research material. His method developed for the special education influence of cortical deaf-mute made him a pioneer of the hearing education program worldwide. In the thirties, he began to deal with the education of the intellectually disabled – primarily moderate cases. In 1958, he personally participated in the organization of an institute established in Brandenburg-Görden (then: GDR) for the moderately and severely mentally disabled and in the development of its special education program. The institution was named the Bárczi-Haus. In 1953, he was awarded the Kossuth Prize. The Faculty of Special Education at ELTE in Budapest was named after him. ; ; His main works: ; Health care trial lessons, 1928, ; The training of Hungarian speech sounds, 1928, ; The guide to health care education, 1935, ; The inheritance of deafness and the prevention related to it, 1936, ; Hearing awakening – hearing education, 1938, ; Practical phonetics and defective speech correction, 1950, ; Physiological aspects of teaching pronunciation, reading and writing for special education teachers, 1954, ; General special education, 1959.