Julius Reinhold Friedlander

Julius Reinhold Friedlander
Julius Reinhold Friedlander
	portrait by John Neagle
Born	1803
Died	1839 (aged 35–36)

Julius Reinhold Friedlander (1803–1839) was a German-American educator. He was the founder of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, which later became the Overbrook School for the Blind.^[1]

^ "Julius R. Friedlander". The Friend. 1839. Shortly after the death of J. R. Friedlander, the students of the Institution for the Blind assembled, and resolved that an obituary should be prepared for their friend and benefactor, and the task was devolved upon Henry J. Gray, of Virginia, one of the blind, a lad in his fifteenth year. We have already had occasion to notice the poetic composition, and the musical writings of this wonderful youth; we now invite attention to his notice of his beloved teacher. We copy it from the Student's Magazine, published in the Institute, and printed with raised letters for the blind. ...