Baedeker "baedekering" became an English-language term for the purpose of traveling in a country to write a travel guide or travelogue about it. Fritz Baedeker became the most successful travel guide publisher of all time and turned the publishing house into the most famous and reputable publisher of travel guides in the world. In 1909, Leipzig University conferred an honorary Ph.D. (a rare honour at the time) on him at its 500th anniversary convocation. This era in its history was brought to an end by the outbreak of World War I, after which the house of Baedeker went into decline, the
Karl Brugger is known. Karl Brugger Karl Brugger (1941, Munich – January 3, 1984, Rio de Janeiro) was a German foreign correspondent for the ARD network and author, best known for his book "The Chronicle of Akakor" about the alleged lost city of Akakor. He was born in Munich and studied journalism and contemporary history there and in Paris. Brugger worked as a freelance journalist before being, from 1974, correspondent for the ARD. Brugger was shot down in Rio de Janeiro in 1984 while walking with his friend Ulrich Encke at the famous Ipanema beach. Neither his killer, nor the motive for