Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: ukkel - death date: september 10 , 1932 - birth date: july 23 , 1871 - name: jean-ovide decroly - nationality: belgian - image: file : ovide decroly -lrb- 1871-1932 -rrb- . jpg - birth place: ronse - occupation: teacher and psychologist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ovide decroly .
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jean-ovide decroly -lrb- ronse , july 23 , 1871 -- ukkel , september 10 , 1932 -rrb- 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 -lrb- mentally -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- based in uccle , brussels , a school reaching from kindergarten to baccalaureate -rrb- is following his pedagogical approach .