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Louis Braille
French educator and inventor of the Braille system (–)
Louis Braille | |
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| Born | ()4 January Coupvray, French Empire |
| Died | 6 January () (aged&#;43) Paris, French Republic |
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| Known&#;for | Braille |
Louis Braille (brayl; French:[lwibʁɑj]; 4 January – 6 January ) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day.
Braille was blinded in one eye at the age of three. This occurred as a result from an accident with a stitching awl in his father's harness making shop. Consequently, an infection set in and spread to both eyes, resulting in total blindness.[1] At that time, there were not many resources in place for the blind, but he nevertheless excelled in his education and received a scholarship to France's Royal Institute for Blind Youth
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Louis Braille
Inventor
Visual impairment : Became blind at three, due to accident
Born : 4 January,
Died : January 6,
Louis Braille was born January 4, , in Coupvray , France , a small country village about twenty-five miles east of Paris. He lived with his mother, Monique, his father, Simon-René, his two older sisters, Monique-Catherine and Marie-Céline, and his older brother, Louis-Simon. Their home was a stone cottage in the village.
Simon-René Braille was a harness-maker. He was a master craftsman and was known throughout the område as a skillful and honest worker. His kurs was attached to the house, and Louis liked to watch him while he cut and shaped the leather into harnesses, reins, saddles, and collars for the villagers' horses.
One day when Louis was three years old, he went into the kurs. His father was not there. He picked up a skarp tool and tried to cut a piece of leather as he had seen his father do. The tool slipped and plunged into his eye. The inju
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Few inventors have had such a positive effect on so many lives as Louis Braille, the remarkable educator, innovator and advocate for the blind.
Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in Coupvray, France, on Jan. 4, As a boy of 3, Louis was playing at his father’s leather workbench with a sharp cobbler’s tool when he poked one of his own eyes, causing severe damage. Like the great American humorist James Thurber, Braille’s other eye became inflamed and he developed sympathetic ophthalmia, whereby both the physical wound to one eye and the “sympathetic” inflammation of the other caused him to completely lose his sight by the age of 5.
At 10, Braille was awarded a scholarship to France’s prestigious, if poorly resourced, Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. He excelled in his classes and became a wonderfully talented organist and cellist, as well as a kind mentor for the junior students.
Braille first encountered an early predecessor to his tactile writi