Louis Braille Biography

Louis Braille biography

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NAME: Louis Braille
OCCUPATION: Educator, Inventor
BIRTH DATE: January 04, 1809
DEATH DATE: January 06, 1852
EDUCATION: National Institute for Blind Children
PLACE OF BIRTH: Coupvray, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

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Louis Braille was a French educator who developed the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind.

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Louis Braille was a French educator who developed the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Himself blinded at the age of 3 in an accident, he went to Paris in 1819 to attend the National Institute for Blind Children, and from 1826 he taught there. Braille adapted a method created by Charles Barbier to develop his own simplified system.