Charles Kasiel Bliss

Born

1897-09-05

Died

1985-07-13

Birthplace

Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria

Biography

Charles K. Bliss was a chemical engineer and semiotician, best known as the inventor of Blissymbols, an ideographic writing system. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire but immigrated to Australia after the Second World War and The Holocaust.