Ganya Vilmos, Gaňo

* Tarna, May 25, 1893 – † Bratislava, July 24, 1966 / special education teacher ; ; Originally of Ruthenian nationality. He graduated from the Teacher Training Institute in Sárospatak in 1912, and then from the Special Education Teacher Training Institute in Budapest in 1915. He began his career in Budapest, at the Lower and Middle State Institute for Nervous Children, and from 1917 he was also a colleague of the Pestalozzi Home of the Criminal Pedagogical Institute. During the Commune of 1919, he worked at the Employment Institute for the Blind and the Child Protection Department of the People's Commissariat for Justice. In 1920, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia. He first worked at the Institute for the Deaf in Króleň and then in Bratislava. During these years, he dealt with almost all areas of special education and published studies in Hungarian and Slovak. After World War II, he worked on the development of the Slovak public education and special education institutional system, the organization of new types of institutions, and the reform of professional training. He headed the Department of Defectology at the Pedagogical Research Institute in Bratislava (1947–1966), and was an extraordinary professor of special pedagogy at the Comenius University. He founded (1957) and edited the Slovak journal Špeciálna škola, and then participated in the launch (1959) and editing of the Czechoslovak journal Otázky defektológie. ; ; His main works: ; Child Protection and Healing Pedagogy, 1918, ; Basic Concepts of the Education of Nervous Children, 1922, ; Výchova defektných detí (Education of disabled children – translated by Vilmosné Hasák), 1966.