Maximilian Berlitz

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Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (1852-1921) was the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools in 1878, in Providence, Rhode Island.

He was born an orphan with his sister in Württemberg, Germany in 1852 and grew up in a family of educators in the Black Forest. He later moved to France and then to the US.

Berlitz started as a teacher at Warner Polytechnic College as a teacher of French and German and took over the school when Mr Warren disappeared with all the prepaid tuition money .

Berlitz hired a Nicholas Joly as a french teacher one day when the regular french teacher did not show up and there was a french class waiting. Nicholas Joly did not know english, so the only job he could get at first was as a lift boy. The only two words he knew in English were "up" and "down".

Dreading the outcome of this experiment, Berlitz was happy to see that the pupils were extremely happy with the new teacher, in spite of Nicholas Joly not knowing a word of English. Berlitz sat in to study what Nicholas Joly was doing, noticed that the pupils learned a lot faster than they had done while translating, and the Berlitz method, teaching without translating, was born.


Charles Berlitz was his grandson.

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