Charles Kasiel Bliss

Born 5 September 1897 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria

Died 13 July 1985 (aged 87)

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.