What is Louis Braille?
{{refimprove|date=April 2012}} [[File:Braille.jpg|thumb|180px|A portrait of Louis Braille]] '''Louis Braille''' (4 January 1809 - 6 January 1852) was a [[French people|French]] [[inventor]]. He was born in [[:en:Coupvray|Coupvray]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rnib.org.uk/aboutus/aboutsightloss/famous/Pages/louisbraille.aspx |title=RNIB |access-date=2012-04-09 |archive-date=2014-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317162822/http://www.rnib.org.uk/aboutus/aboutsightloss/famous/Pages/louisbraille.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> He invented the [[Braille|script braille]] system, which helps [[blind]] people to read. Braille is read by passing one's [[finger]]s over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six raised points. It has been adapted to almost every known [[language]]. Numbers can be written normal in Braille and there are as well some short forms for common words. Braille was the child of a [[leather]] maker. He was the youngest of four children. He had three older [[sibling]]s, two sisters and a brother. He became blind at the age of three, because he accidentally stuck a [[stitching awl]] into one eye while he was in his father's workshop. At the time, there were no [[antibiotics]], and soon his injured eye was [[infection|infected]]. The infection spread to his other eye and soon, he became blind in both eyes. He went to the [[:en:Institut_National_des_Jeunes_Aveugles|Royal Institute of Blind Youth]] when he was 10. Braille was a good [[student]], especially in [[science]] and [[music]]. Later, when he was an adult, he became a church [[Organ (music)|organist]]. He was also a [[teacher]] at the Institute of Blind Youth. Braille died in [[Paris]] at the age of 43 of a disease called [[tuberculosis]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Braille, Louis}} [[Category:1809 births]] [[Category:1852 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from tuberculosis]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Paris]] [[Category:French inventors]] [[Category:Braille]]