Ovide Decroly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ovide Decroly

Belgian psychologist

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1871

Place of Birth: Ronse, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1932

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist, neurologist, pedagogue

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jean-Ovide Decroly (Ronse, July 23, 1871 – Ukkel, September 10, 1932) was a Belgian teacher and psychologist. He studied medicine at the University of Ghent, with half a year at the University of Berlin where he studied the action of toxins and antitoxins on general nutrition in 1898.
He later worked with (mentally) handicapped children at the neurological clinic in Brussels. Decroly founded The Hermitage School in 1907.
He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels.
Nowadays the "Ecole Decroly" (based in Uccle, Brussels, a school reaching from kindergarten to baccalaureate) is following his pedagogical approach.