THE DEAF AND THE WORLD: Between Exclusion andInclusion

The Ljubljana Institute for the Deaf-Mute was built with
the resources from various benefactors’ bequests. Dean Ignacij
Holzapfel was the most generous of them. In his will, he dedicated
his fortune to the construction of an institute for the deaf
youth from Carniola, who were educated in German institutions
and thus alienated from their homeland. This was another
display of his patriotism, as were his previous unsuccessful attempts
to publish the Slovenian weekly newspaper Slavinja.
With the construction of the Institute in Ljubljana in 1900, the
Slovenian deaf youth from Carniola were given the opportunity
to receive education in the Slovenian language and live independently
after the completion of their schooling.