Louis Braille
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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Lived 1809–1852, aged 43France
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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.
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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 t…
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