Carl Elsener Sr. Carl Elsener Sr. Carl Elsener Sr. (also known as Charles Elsener, born 6 July 1922 in Ibach, † 1 June 2013 in Schwyz) was a Swiss entrepreneur. Carl Elsener was the grandson of Karl Elsener (1860-1918) and the son of Carl Elsener (1886-1950). Karl Elsener had opened a factory in Ibach for the production of knives and surgical instruments, from which the knife factory Victorinox developed. Carl Elsener led the company initially with his father and his brother Eduard Elsener (b. 1926). After the death of his father in 1950, he took over the management. The Swiss Army Knife is
Karl Zangemeister Karl Zangemeister Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Zangemeister (28 November 1837, in Hallungen, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 8 June 1902, in Heidelberg) was a German librarian and philologist. He studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1862 with the thesis "De Horatii vocibus singularibus dissertatio". Afterwards, he worked on the "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum" project in Italy, and from 1868 to 1873 was a librarian at the Ducal Library in Gotha. In 1873 he relocated to the University of Heidelberg as senior librarian, being named a professor of classical philology in 1875. From 1894 to 1902