Charles K. Bliss

Charles K. Bliss (German: Karl Kassel Blitz; September 5, 1897 July 13, 1985) was an Austrian-Australian chemical engineer and semiotician, best known as the inventor of Blissymbols, an ideographic writing system. He was born in Austria-Hungary but was forced to flee to Australia during the Second World War as a Jewish refugee fleeing the Nazis.

Charles K. Bliss
Born
Karl Kasiel Blitz

September 5, 1897
Czernovitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivsti, Ukraine)
DiedJuly 13, 1985 (aged 87)
Sydney, Australia
Citizenship
  • Austrian (until 1938)
  • Stateless (1939-1946)
  • Australian (from 1946)
Alma materVienna University of Technology
Occupation(s)chemical engineer, semiotician
Known forInventor of Blissymbolics
Parents
  • Michel Anchel (father)
  • Jeanette Blitz (mother)
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