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SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY VOLUME 54  NUMBER 1  JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2009 HISTORY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY MICHAEL MARMOR, EDITOR Biography of Louis Braille and Invention of the Braille Alphabet Javier Jiménez, MD,1 Jesús Olea, MD,1 Jesús Torres, MD,1 Inmaculada Alonso, MD,1 Dirk Harder, MD,2 and Konstanze Fischer, MD1 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital General Yagüe, Burgos, Spain; and 2Department of Ophthalmology, Morgenster Hospital, Masvingo, Zimbabwe Abstract.

Louis Braille (1809--1852) was born in France. At the age of three, he wounded his right eye with a cobbler’s tool while playing in his father’s workshop.

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No medical knowledge could save his eyesight at that time. Louis’s left eye became inflamed, apparently due to subsequent sympathetic ophthalmia, and he eventually lost the sight in that eye. At the age of five, Louis Braille was completely blind.

He is considered to be the inventor of a writing system by tou