Original: Laurent Clerc (born Louis Laurent Marie Clerc) (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was called "The Apostle of the deaf in America" and "The Father of the Deaf" by generations of American deaf people.
Simplified: Laurent Clerc, born Louis Laurent Marie Clerc, (December 26, 1785 in France - July 18, 1869) co-founded the first school for the deaf (people who cannot hear) in the United States. Deaf people in America respected Clerc and call him the "Father of the Deaf" because he founded the first school for the deaf in America in Hartford, Connecticut.