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Topic: Karl Baedeker


  
  Baedeker online
Baedeker Allianz Reiseführer zeigen vielfältige Aspekte Ihres Reiseziels: Sie bieten fundierte Hintergrund-Informationen, beschreiben ausführlich die Sehenswürdigkeiten und geben viele praktische und nützliche Hinweise.
Damit Sie die "Highlights" Ihres Reiseziels nicht versäumen, verweisen die bereits 1846 von Verlagsgründer Karl Baedeker eingeführten Baedeker-Sterne auf besonders Beachtenswertes.
Höheres Lob als zwei ** Sternchen hat Baedeker nicht zu vergeben.
www.baedeker.com /ueberuns.php?p=5   (347 words)

  
  Karl Baedeker -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Karl Baedeker (not Baedecker) (3 November, 1801 - 4 October, 1859) was a publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists.
Baedeker was born in (A city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr) Essen, the son of a book printer, and started his publishing company in 1827 in (Click link for more info and facts about Koblenz) Koblenz.
The Baedeker company relocated in 1872 to (A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center) Leipzig under his third son Fritz, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/karl_baedeker.htm   (278 words)

  
 Karl Baedeker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Karl Baedeker (not Baedecker) (3 November 1801 4 October 1859) was a publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists.
Baedeker was born in Essen, the son of a book printer, and started his publishing company in 1827 in Koblenz.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_Baedeker   (316 words)

  
 BAEDEKER KARL - LoveToKnow Article on BAEDEKER KARL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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BAEDEKER, KARL (1801-1859), German publisher, was born at Essen on the 3rd of November 1801.
Baedeker's son Fritz carried on the business, which in 1872 was transferred to Leipzig.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAEDEKER_KARL.htm   (1469 words)

  
 Germany Info: Culture & Life
Karl Baedeker, whose name is eponymous with travel guides, was born 200 years ago, on November 3, 1801.
Baedeker, son of an established publishing family, was among the first to discover and develop a nascent 19th- century demand for travel guides.
Baedeker guide books, with their distinctive red binding and stamped gilt lettering, were instantly recognizable and eponymous with high-quality travel for more than a century.
www.germany-info.org /relaunch/culture/new/cul_baedecker.html   (439 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Kal-Kas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist who made improvements to Guglielmo Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy.
KARL F. Karl F Rolvaag was an American politician.
Karl Von Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military writer.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C8A.HTM   (934 words)

  
 Karl Baedeker --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Known during his lifetime only to a small group of socialists and revolutionaries, Karl Marx wrote books now considered by Communists all over the world to be the source of absolute truth on matters of economics, philosophy, and politics.
His distinctive contribution was a radical change in the direction of theology from a 19th-century orientation toward progress and from optimistic liberalism to an orthodoxy that had to cope with the grim realities of the 20th century, especially two world wars.
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler were two of the automobile industry's pioneers.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273055?tocId=9273055   (572 words)

  
 Abebooks: Baedeker Guides
An avid admirer of Johnson's famous dictionary, Karl Baedeker was born at Essen in 1801 into an established and prosperous literary family.
I was introduced to Baedekers when my father presented me with a copy of the 1898 guide to Spain as he dropped me off at Gatwick for a trip to Madrid last November.
Karl Baedeker died of heart failure induced by overwork on 10 April, 1859.
awww.abebooks.com /docs/Community/Featured/RBR/baedekers.shtml   (1703 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Bud Baedeker, 90, racing handicapper
His other son, Rick Baedeker, is president of Hollywood Park, and several other relatives continue to offer their daily choices to the public.
Baedeker, whose real name was Frederick Martin, grew up in Chicago, where he once worked as a caddie for mobster Al Capone, Jack Baedeker said.
Baedeker moved to California with his family when he was 19 because he was ill with tuberculosis.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/05/bud_baedeker_90_racing_handicapper   (317 words)

  
 Karl Baedecker
TWIG - Karl Baedeker, who has lent his name to travel guides for nearly 200 years, was born November 3, 1801.
Baedeker guides, with their distinctive red binding and stamped gilt lettering, were instantly recognizable and eponymous with high-quality travel.
A famous anecdote illustrates Baedeker’s exacting methods: In 1847, Baedeker was in Milan to research the city’s celebrated cathedral.
www.echoworld.com /B01/B0112/B0112-02.htm   (429 words)

  
 Bancroftiana, Number 123 Fall 2003: Collecting Baedeker Travel Guides
Baedeker travel guides — officially “handbooks for tourists”—have so entrenched themselves that dictionaries now carry the word “Baedeker” as the generic term for a travel guide.
One story is that Karl Baedeker was impressed with these red-covered Murray guidebooks brought by British tourists, and he decided to compete.
While other Baedeker staff no doubt collected the information, wrote up the texts, and prepared the maps for the very early handbooks, Karl Baedeker himself is said to have sometimes traveled incognito to doublecheck a handbook’s accuracy.
bancroft.berkeley.edu /events/bancroftiana/123/baedeker.html   (918 words)

  
 de Freitas Books-Baedeker
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau and Co., 1885.
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau and Co., 1888.
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau and Co.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
www.defreitasbooks.com /baedeker.html   (1571 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Karl Baedeker
Map of Germany showing Mainz Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
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.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karl-Baedeker   (703 words)

  
 Alibris: Jarrold
Baedeker's maps, text, and photos take travelers through the architectural wonders of Russia's past, through St. Basil's Cathedral and Red Square into the city's modern sights, sounds, and nightlife.
Baedeker's authoritative name and recognizable red covers are known the world over for their quality and ease of use.
For more than 140 years, Baedeker's bright red, internationally recognized covers have opened to reveal complete A-to-Z directories of cities, towns, regions, musuems, monuments, cathedrals and more, plus information on hotels and restaurants.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Jarrold   (483 words)

  
 Resurgam Books Travel
Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire excluding Paris and Its Environs Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905 [4th edition] 4¼" x 6¼".
Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire excluding Paris and Its Environs Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1909 [5th edition, reprint 1919] 4¼" x 6¼".
Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1913 [25th edition] 4¼" x 6¼".
www.flamboroughmanor.co.uk /resurgam/travel.htm   (5317 words)

  
 Climbing in Switzerland -
Although by 1902 the work had been taken over by Karl's son Fritz, the attention to detail of the original compiler was still evident.
I imagined Holmes studying his Baedeker before embarking on the train to the coast from the old London Chatham and Dover Railway station.
Baedeker also recommended "a change of flannel shirts, worsted stockings, a few pocket handkerchiefs… a pocket knife with a corkscrew, a leathern drinking-cup, a spirit-flask… and a piece of green crape or coloured spectacles to protect the eyes from the glare of the snow."
www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/Climbing/Switzerland.html   (1499 words)

  
 Bancroftiana, Number 120 Fall 2002: Desiderata: Baedekers!
With enthusiastic support from faculty members and Library colleagues, Bancroft is launching a new special collection: the travel guides published in Leipzig by the firm of Karl Baedeker beginning in the 1830s.
Baedekers were the preeminent travel guides for more than 100 years.
We plan to build up a substantial run of Baedekers for this early period for all the countries and regions covered by the firm's publications and in all the languages employed (German, English, and French).
bancroft.berkeley.edu /events/bancroftiana/120/desiderata.html   (302 words)

  
 Baedeker's Old Guide Books
Karl Baedeker was one of the first individuals to produce travel guides.
Karl Baedeker Junior published the first handbooks in English, while in 1872, Fritzs moved the Publishing House to Leipzig.
The Great Grandson of Karl Baedeker re-established the publishing house, which is still publishing Baedeker travel guides to this day.
www.contueor.com /baedeker/history   (1130 words)

  
 icehousebooks (list: Travel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
BAEDEKER, KARL Autriche-Hongrie y Compris Cettigne, Belgrade et Bucharest : Manuel Du Voyageur, Karl Baedeker/Paul Ollendorff, Leipzig / Paris, 1911.
BAEDEKER, KARL Southern Italy and Sicily with Excursions to the Lipari Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu, Karl Baedeker, Leipsic (Leipzig), 1903.
BAEDEKER, KARL Southern Italy and Sicily with Excursions to the Lipari Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu, Karl Baedeker, Leipsic (Leipzig), 1930.
www.icehousebooks.co.uk /L_travel.htm   (1752 words)

  
 Baedeker, Karl on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
His printing establishment was at Koblenz, but his son Fritz, who continued the business, moved it to Leipzig.
Printed in several languages, the guidebooks provided valuable historical information and ran into many editions, especially for European countries.
Although the firm's files were destroyed during World War II, the business was revived after the war by a great-grandson of Baedeker.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/baedeker.asp   (323 words)

  
 Kolby's Pilgrimage Site ~ Travel Books
Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) began his own publishing business in Koblenz at the age of 26, specializing in guidebooks known for their historic information and attention to detail.
Today, Baedeker Books is the oldest German-language travel guide publishing house in the world, publishing dozens of travel books and maps in six languages.
Baedeker Books, even the early ones from the turn of the century, can be found on the web.
www.kahunna.net /books.shtml   (911 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Horse racing handicapper Bud Baedeker dies at 90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Baedeker died Feb. 28 in New York City, said his grandson, Toby Turrell of Westminster.
"Baedeker's Guide" — named after travel books first published by Karl Baedeker in the early 1800s — has been sold at Southern California tracks since 1938.
Bud Baedeker moved to California with his family when he was 19 because he was ill with tuberculosis.
www.usatoday.com /sports/horses/2004-03-03-handicapper-dies_x.htm   (404 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: Travel and Adventure, World Travel Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Baedeker, Karl Baedeker's London And Its Environs Handbook for Travellers Publisher: Karl Baedeker Leipzig 1911.
Baedeker, Karl RHINE FROM ROTTERDAM TO CONSTANCE, THE, 15E : Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Rhine, 15th Edition, 1903) Publisher: Karl Baedeker; Leipzig: 1903.
Baedeker, Karl NORTHERN GERMANY, AS FAR AS THE BAVARIAN AND AUSTRIAN FRONTIERS, 11E : Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's, 11th Edition, 1893) Publisher: Karl Baedeker; Leipzig: 1893.
www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=195   (986 words)

  
 Baedeker online
Baedeker war und ist der berühmteste aller Reiseführer.
Der weltweit bekannte Karl Baedeker Verlag besteht seit 1827.
Baedeker ist damit der erste Reiseführer der Welt.
www.baedeker.com /impressum.php   (77 words)

  
 Baedeker's Old Guide Books
Published at the time before the automobile was commonplace, the maps appearing on this web-site, gives a view of Britain and Europe before the urban spread of the 20th century.
I will be adding further Baedeker Guidebooks to this web-site in due time, so keep visiting.
It is intended for the images to be use by historians and genealogists for non-commercial research purposes.
www.contueor.com /baedeker   (230 words)

  
 Baedeker, Karl,Antiquarian Books, Rare Books,antique maps,antique globes, historical prints, travel guides, atlases, ...
Handbook for travellers edited by Karl Baedeker with 19 maps and 24 plans.
Handbook for travellers by Karl Baedeker with 4 maps and 24 plans.
Handbook for travellers by Karl Baedeker with 33 maps and 48 plans.
www.murrayhudson.com /antiquarian_books/baedeker.html   (1024 words)

  
 Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books
BAEDEKER, Karl Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol.
BAEDEKER, Karl Schweiz nebst den Angrenzenden Theilen von Oberitalien, Savoyen und Tirol Karl Baedeker, Coblenz 1867
BAEDEKER, Karl Ägypten und der Sudan Karl Baedeker, Leipzig 1928
polybiblio.com /shapero   (7819 words)

  
 Karl Schwarzschild --  Encyclopædia Britannica
More results on "Karl Schwarzschild" when you join.
This phenomenon is thought to be the final fate of the more massive stars (see fl hole).
Immediately on publication of Einstein's paper on general relativity, the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild found a mathematical solution to the new field equations, which corresponds to the gravitational field of a compact massive body, such as a star or planet, and which is now referred to as Schwarzschild's field.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066265   (687 words)

  
 Nile Notes of a Howadji | American Travellers in Egypt
This well-worn edition was carried on her travels by Lucy H. Baird, daughter of the Institution's second Secretary, Spencer F. Baird.
Baedeker's little red Handbooks have been a staple in travelers' luggage since the early nineteenth century.
Baedeker originally devoted two volumes to Egypt, with volume one covering "Lower Egypt" (the area around the mouth of the Nile, including Alexandria, Cairo, the Giza pyramids, and the sites of the Sinai peninsula) and volume two devoted to "Upper Egypt" (Nubia and the area south to Aswan and the Second Cataract).
www.sil.si.edu /ondisplay/nile-notes/guidebooks.htm   (1022 words)

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