Louis Braille
Birthday	Wednesday, January 04, 1809
Birthplace	Coupvray, France
Died	Tuesday, January 06, 1852

Braille, Louis (1809–1852)

teacher of blind; devised raised printing which is read by touch. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 354]

See: Blindness

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Braille, Louis

Born Jan. 4, 1809, in Coupvray; died Jan. 6, 1852, in Paris. French teacher of reading by touch.

Braille went blind at age three. In 1829 he developed a raised-dot print for the blind that is still used throughout the world. The first book printed in Braille’s system was A History of France (1837). The printing of books in the Braille system began in Russia in 1885. In addition to his system for letters and numbers, Braille worked out a system of musical notation using the same principles. Braille was a talented musician and taught music to the blind.

REFERENCES

“Stoletie so dnia rozhdeniia Lui Brailia.” Slepets, 1909, no. 2.
Krasnousov, P. D., and F. I. Shoev. Lui Brail’. Moscow, 1959.

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