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Although Switzerland gave Karl Baedeker countless opportunities to quote Schiller, it could not distract him from the requirements of scholarship—he reportedly hired Theodore Mommsen, no less, to prepare notes on Roman settlements—or from the petty annoyances of travel. His notes on the Bernese Oberland concluded with this heartfelt paragraph of warning: Austria, Together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad (12thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929 Baedeker used the parenthesis most often as a rapid indicator of the quality of hotels and restaurants, as in these descriptions of small towns chosen at random from the 1896 Southern Italy. “Pescara (All. Rebecclano, near the station, with trattoria, clean; Railway Restaurant, mediocre), a fortified town with 5000 inhab., is situated in an unhealthy plain”; or “ Sala Consilina (Alb. Morino, dirty; cab to the town, 50 c.), the seat of a sub-prefect, picturesquely situated on a slope, overlooked by a medieval castle and the wooded summits of the Monte Cavallo.” It was this sort of economy and precision that Bertrand Russell had in mind when he identified Baedeker as one of the two major influences on his prose style. (The other was Milton.)

The Riviera. South-Eastern France and Corsica, the Italian Lakes and Lake of Geneva (1sted.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931 His tenure at the helm of the firm saw the publication of three new travel guides in 1861 viz the first Baedeker travel guide in English, the handbook on "The Rhine" (from Switzerland to Holland), a guide in German on Italy ( Ober-Italien), the first of a series on Italy, which his father had planned and one in French, also on Italy ( Italie septentrionale). In German only: Dalmatia, Western Yugoslavia, Albania viz. Dalmatien und die Adria, Westliches Südslawien, Istrien, Budapest, Albanien, Korfu. Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929.Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910−1979) was the son of Karl Baedeker III, who was killed in action at the Battle of Liège in 1914. He had worked as an editor at the firm before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war, he saw active service and rose to the rank of captain. Towards the closing stages of the war, he was taken prisoner in Austria by the Americans. After the war, he moved to Malente-Gremsmühlen in Schleswig-Holstein, where his wife and sister were living and which was in the British zone. Here, he worked in local government until 1948, latterly sorting out the Schleswig-Holstein archives when he decided to revive the family publishing business under the name of Karl Baedeker . His uncle Hans had decided to stay on in Leipzig, which was now under the jurisdiction of the Russians who had not granted him a publishing licence. However, they were very close and Karl could draw on his uncle's experience to get things going. Even before the outbreak of war, Hans used to tell him: [3] Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol (11thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1885, OCLC 17556777 . Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol (22nded.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907, OCLC 05691169 . citizens were killed in the two Baedeker raids with 1000 others injured, and 340 by bombing throughout the war—giving Norwich the highest air raid casualties in Eastern England. Out of the 35,000 domestic dwellings in Norwich, 2,000 were destroyed, and another 27,000 suffered some damage. [9] Fewer than 5,000 houses escaped without any damage at all. [10]

a b Mairdumont Gmbh & Co. Kg (2012-12-19). "Der Neue Baedeker | Baedeker Reiseführer". Baedeker.com . Retrieved 2014-04-18. For travelers who preferred to sample the treasures offered by his handbooks rather than consume the entire feast, Karl Baedeker introduced the star system. Beginning in 1844 he marked with an asterisk those few points of interest that hurried travelers should not fail to see. Later he added a second asterisk for especially stellar attractions, and extended the system to his lists of hotels and restaurants. Karl Baedeker’s asterisks served as his laconic substitute for the adjectival raptures of competing authors, and he awarded them with careful and sometimes idiosyncratic discretion. Karl Baedeker’s three sons administered the firm one after the other. The first, Ernst Baedeker, extended the family empire to London and northern Italy before his early death in 1861. He was succeeded by his brother Karl, who expanded the empire upward through his exploration of Alpine peaks, and made preparations for expanding it outward to Egypt. In paragraphs like this one from the 1864 edition of Switzerland the younger Karl Baedeker honored his father’s principle of writing strictly from “ personal experience”: Following the death of Florian, his mother, Karl Friedrich's widow Eva Baedeker, née Konitz (1913−1984), piloted the firm until she died in 1984. She was the last Baedeker to play an active role in running the Baedeker publishing house founded in 1827, and negotiated the sale of the Freiburg branch to Langenscheidt before she died. However, the "Karl Baedeker" brand name has been retained by all subsequent owners of the company, in one form or another. a b "World War Two Norwich 'bomb map' restored". BBC. 19 February 2014 . Retrieved 9 September 2018.He received a loan from Allen & Unwin, [3] the London publishing house, which represented Baedeker in Britain, and continued to do whatever he could to rejuvenate the firm at home. On July 1, 1927, Hans celebrated the centenary of its foundation [2] by holding a reception at the Leipzig "Harmonie", [6] a popular venue for such events. The firm did make some progress and he managed to produce twelve new titles in German and five in English, though these included those commissioned by the Nazi regime. [2] He also published the 1928 one-volume eighth and revised German edition of Egypt and in 1929 its eighth English edition, which many travel guidebooks connoisseurs and collectors consider to be the two finest Baedeker travel guides ever published. Egypt edited by K. Baedeker, Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1895 Hermann Augustine Piehler (1888−1987)—better known as H.A. Piehler in the publishing world—was an Englishman of German descent who became the chief editor of the English editions after the Muirheads left. [ citation needed] During his student days, Karl Friedrich Baedeker had spent a year in England and had lived with Piehler at his London residence. [ when?] In 1948, when Karl Friedrich decided to re-establish the Baedeker firm in Malente (British zone, in Germany), his publishing licence was endorsed by Piehler, who was then a colonel in British Intelligence and the head of the 'books and publications' division in the district. [3] Upon his return to England, Piehler continued editing the English guides well into his eighties. [ vague] In the meantime, [ when?] his brother had been editing the new Baedeker London guide. [ citation needed]

The United States, with an excursion into Mexico (3rded.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1904, OCLC 00490822 This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. ( April 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Southern Germany (Wurtemberg and Bavaria) (12thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 2011248, OL 6569059M + Index Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol (8thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1879, OCLC 03054814 . During his reign, which lasted over 50 years, Fritz produced 73 new Baedekers, as they came to be known universally. The Baedeker travel guides became so popular that baedekering became an English-language term for the purpose of traveling in a country to write a travel guide or travelogue about it.Die Schweiz, die italienischen seen, Mailand, Turin, Genua: Handbuch für Reisende (8thed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1859, hdl: 2027/hvd.hnnsec, OCLC 29490441 Paris and its environs, with routes from London to Paris, and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland (9thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1888, OCLC 01464139 .