# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-braille
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:59.279Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-braille"
name: "Louis Braille"
slug: "louis-braille"
description: "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."
tagline: "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"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Engraving_of_Louis_Braille_by_Henri_Thiriat_(cropped).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1809-01-04"
deathDate: "1852-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.