# Louis Braille

> He lost his sight at three after an awl slipped in his father's workshop, then gave blind people everywhere a way to read and write with their fingers — a tactile alphabet still in worldwide use, untouched since he finished it.

*French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1809-01-04
- **Died:** 1852-01-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 in France. An accident with a stitching awl in his father's harness shop blinded one eye at age three; infection spread and took the other. Few resources existed for blind children then, but he won a scholarship to the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. At fifteen, in 1824, he presented his new tactile code to classmates — a system inspired by Charles Barbier's military night-writing but far more compact, adaptable to music and rapid use. He became a professor at the Institute and played music on the side, spending the rest of his life refining the method. Most educators ignored it for years after his death on 6 January 1852. Then the world caught up.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 63.0 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 23.4 / 100
- **Now attention:** 8.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #223

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Science, #France, #Europe, #19th Century

## Sources
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- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Louis%20Braille)
- [Луи Брайл](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB)
- [লুই ব্রেল](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%87_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2)
- [Louis Braille](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille)
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- [Louis Braille](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille)
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- [Λουί Μπράιγ](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AF_%CE%9C%CF%80%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%B3)
- [Louis Braille](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille)
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- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7fc0e54e-dfe5-42a0-ae88-b92d8d73ce75)
- [Луі Брайль](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%96_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8C)
- [Louis Braille](https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille)

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