Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital i London grundades 1739 av filantropen och sjökaptenen Thomas Coram. Det var ett barnhem för "utbildning och omhändertagande av utsatta och övergivna barn". Ordet hospital användes vid den här tiden i en mer ursprunglig betydelse (av latinets hospitalis 'gästvänlig') för en institution för omhändertagande av sämre lottade personer. Foundling betyder 'hittebarn'.
Foundling Museum bevarar barnhemmets historia. Konstnären William Hogarth och tonsättaren Georg Friedrich Händel var engagerade i barnhemmet vid dess inrättande.
Litteratur
- Jamila Gavin: Coram Boy: London: Egmont/Mammoth: 2000: ISBN 1-4052-1282-9 (U.S. Edition: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux: 2001: ISBN 0-374-31544-2)
- Marthe Jocelyn: A Home for Foundlings: Toronto: Tundra Books: 2005: ISBN 0-88776-709-5
- McClure, Ruth K. (1981) (på engelska). Coram's children: the London foundling hospital in the eighteenth century. London: Yale U.P. Libris 4768179. ISBN 0-300-02465-7
- R.H. Nichols and F A. Wray, The History of the Foundling Hospital (London: Oxford University Press, 1935).
- Christine Oliver and Peter Aggleton: Coram's Children: Growing Up in the Care of the Foundling Hospital: 1900-1955: London: Coram Family: 2000: ISBN 0-9536613-1-8
- Lisa Zunshine: Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth Century England: Columbus: Ohio State University Press: 2005: ISBN 0-8142-0995-5
- Nicolson, Benedict (1972) (på obestämt språk). The treasures of the Foundling hospital: with a catalogue raisonné, based on a draft catalogue by John Kerslake. Studies in the history of art and architecture. Oxford. Libris 4622849. ISBN 0-19-817186-2
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An early print of the Foundling Hospital.
The foundling hospital was founded by Thomas Coram and the idea of a hospital for less fortunate children has continued up to now but it is most commonly referred to as a care home. The word foundling means a small child and children and babies in baskets were dropped off and left on the door step to be collected by nurses.
An early print of the Foundling Hospital.
The foundling hospital was founded by Thomas Coram and the idea of a hospital for less fortunate children has continued up to now but it is most commonly referred to as a care home. The word foundling means a small child and children and babies in baskets were dropped off and left on the door step to be collected by nurses.