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Karl Baedeker

1801 - 1859

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Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker ( BAY-dik-ər, German: [ˈbɛːdəkɐ]; born Bädeker; 3 November 1801 – 4 October 1859) was a German publisher whose company, Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. Karl Baedeker was descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers. He was the eldest of ten children of Gottschalk Diederich Bädeker (1778–1841), who had inherited the publishing house founded by his own father, Zacharias Gerhard Bädeker (1750–1800). The company also published the local newspaper, the Essendische Zeitung, and the family expected that Karl, too, would eventually join the firm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Baedeker is the 243rd most popular businessperson (down from 222nd in 2019), the 2,177th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,106th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Karl Baedeker ranks 243 out of 847Before him are Ramón Calderón, Lawrence Roberts, Josep Lluís Núñez, Andrew Grove, Vidal Sassoon, and Malcolm Glazer. After him are Johns Hopkins, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Lee Shau-kee, Steve Fossett, Hans Wilsdorf, and Vagit Alekperov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Karl Baedeker ranks 34Before him are David Farragut, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Julius Plücker, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Justo José de Urquiza, and Fredrika Bremer. After him are Johann Nestroy, Salvadore Cammarano, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Richard Parkes Bonington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, and Émile Littré. Among people deceased in 1859, Karl Baedeker ranks 34Before him are Robert Stephenson, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Yoshida Shōin, Alfred Vail, and Zygmunt Krasiński. After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William Cranch Bond, Sergey Aksakov, Thomas Horsfield, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Baedeker ranks 2,178 out of 7,253Before him are Bodo Illgner (1967), Jürgen Sparwasser (1948), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg (1332), William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876), and Uziel Gal (1923). After him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Fritz Witt (1908), Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (1673), Johann David Heinichen (1683), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), and Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Karl Baedeker ranks 27Before him are Melitta Bentz (1873), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), John Jacob Astor (1763), Axel Springer (1912), Dieter Schwarz (1939), and Carl Laemmle (1867). After him are Hans Wilsdorf (1881), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Herbert Hainer (1954), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Dietmar Hopp (1940), and Jawed Karim (1979).