Karl baedeker biography
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Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (–55)
Karl Baedeker and his successors initiated a brand, which years after his death remains instantly recognisable.
He was born in Essen to a family of printers and booksellers whose assets included a publishing house established bygd his grandfather Zachariah Gerhard Baedeker (). He studied at the University of Heidelburg, and for two years from worked for a leading bookseller in Berlin. He then joined the family business run by his father Gottschalk Diederich Baedeker () where he remained until when he moved to Koblenz. In he took over the publishing house of Franz Friedrich Röhling, which in had produced Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln ein Handbuch für Schnelreisende (Journeys on the rhen from Mainz to Cologne: a handbook for travellers on the move) bygd Professor Johannes August Klein. In , after Klein’s death, Baedeker brought out a new edition with practical resultat for tourists on such matters as tipping, accommodation, restaurants, railways
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Baedeker’s Universe
Edward Mendelson
Yale Review, 74 (Spring ), pp.
For more than a hundred years, Karl Baedeker was Europe’s ideal parent. In his “Handbooks for Travellers,” which by described all of Europe and North America, and much of Asia and Africa, he did more for his readers than guide their way to agreeable hotels, picturesque churches, and sublime vistas. He also set an example of private and public virtues ranging from thrift to patriotism, comforted the timid and encouraged the daring, taught the proper response to courtesy or cunning, combined moral probity with practical wisdom, and even while warning his readers away from unseemly pleasures let slip the knowledge of where they might be found.
The name Karl Baedeker designates both a man and a corporate personality. The man was a patriotic German in the early-nineteenth-century mold. The corporate personality was fluent in a dozen languages, and managed during the later nineteenth century and early twentieth t
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Baedeker
For other uses, see Baedeker (surname).
German publisher of worldwide travel guides
Verlag Karl Baedeker, founded by Karl Baedeker on 1 July , is a German publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred to simply as "Baedekers" (a term sometimes used to refer to similar works from other publishers, or travel guides in general), contain, among other things, maps and introductions; information about routes and travel facilities; and descriptions of noteworthy buildings, sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists.
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[edit]Karl Baedeker
[edit]− Karl Baedeker (–) descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers from Essen, Germany. He was the eldest of ten children of Gottschalk Diederich Bädeker (–), who had inherited the publishing house founded by his own father, Zacharias Gerhard Bädeker (–). The company also published the local newspaper, the Essendische Zeitung, and the