Birth Centenary of Louis Braille, Commemorative Issue

Birth Centenary of Louis Braille, Commemorative Issue

Γραμματόσημα--Κύπρος--Ιστορία
Postage stamps--Cyprus--History

Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France in 1809. He was blind from the age of three but this did not deter him from joining the Institution of the Young Blind in Paris when he was ten years old. He studied organ playing and became professor of the Institute in 1826.

Aware of the difficulties that blind people encountered, he devised in1829 a system of raised-point writing that enabled these people to both read and write.

As an educationalist and inventor he is the greatest benefactor of blind people. He died in 1852.

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

12th March 2009

Designer: Elena Eliadou

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού.

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