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Karl Baedeker (not Baedecker) (3 November 1801 – 4 October 1859) was a publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. Such a book is often referred to as "a Baedeker", and sometimes the term is used about similar works from other publishers. They contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the best specialists, and are frequently revised in order to be up to date. For the convenience of travellers, they are in a handy format and in small print. Image File history File links Karl Baedeker (1801-1859), German editor of travel guides File links The following pages link to this file: Karl Baedeker ...
Image File history File links Karl Baedeker (1801-1859), German editor of travel guides File links The following pages link to this file: Karl Baedeker ...
November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ...
The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ...
October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ...
1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
Baedeker was born in Essen, the son of a book printer, and started his publishing company in 1827 in Koblenz. Baedeker's company in 1832 bought another Koblenz publisher (Friedrich Röhling) which had in 1828 published a handbook for travellers by J.A. Klein, under the title Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln (travelling the Rhine from Mainz to Köln). This provided the basis for the first of the Baedeker travel guides. Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...
1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Koblenz (also Coblenz in older German spellings; French Coblence; from Latin Confluentes, confluence or merging (rivers)) is after Mainz and Ludwigshafen am Rhein the third largest city in Rhineland-Palatinate (german Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany. ...
At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...
Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
Cologne skyline at night. ...
The Baedeker Company
The Baedeker company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers. With the widespread advent of mechanical transportation, it was Fritz who managed an explosive growth in the line of travel guides, also producing international guides. 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Leipzig â–¶(?) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...
In World War II, Germany launched a series of revenge attacks against English cities featured in the Baedeker Guide to Britain, known as the Baedeker raids. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ...
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The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of reprisal raids for the bombing of the erstwhile Hanseatic League city of Lübeck during World War II, which was being used to supply the Russian front. ...
The Baedeker company's premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker's great grandson revived it, restarting, in 1948, publication of tourist guides. Until today, the Baedeker Family is known to be one of great travellers around the world.
Collecting old Baedeker guides Internet sites such as eBay and Abe Books regularly list old Baedeker guide books for sale. The guides of most historical and cultural interest span the period prior to WWII; describing Europe, the United States, Egypt, Canada, India and Russia in the context of the day. eBay Inc. ...
A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, covering around 10,790,000 km² (4,170,000 sq mi) or 2. ...
Care must be taken when buying guides, with respect to their condition. It is suspected (though most of the Baedeker company's catalogue of published guides were destroyed in a bomb raid during WWII, so they are unable to confirm or deny) that a change in construction methods, with age, leads to rusting in binding staples, which rot pages, which results in the guides literally falling apart. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...
Rarer books (e.g. Russia, India, Egypt) regularly sell for quite significant sums.
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