Educationist, born in Old Aberdeen, NE Scotland, UK. He studied at Marischal College, and kept a school for 30 years in Oxford. He published a book on philosophy using letters of the alphabet for ideas, Ars signorum, vulgo character universalis (1661), and a deaf sign language, Didascalocophus, or the Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680).
George Dalgarno (1626-1687) was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Dalgarno is the author of Didascalocophus or the Deaf and Dumb man’s tutor (1680), which proposed a totally new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes.
Dalgarno was also interested in constructing what he called a 'philosophical language', now more usually referred to as universal language.
Bibliography
David Cram and Jaap Maat, eds., George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The Art of Signs (1661), The Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680), and the Unpublished Papers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
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