Karl Baedeker Tirol und Salzburg, Oberitalien 1855: Paris und Umgebung. nebst Rouen, Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne und den Eisenbahn-Strassen vom Rhein bis Paris 1859: La Hollande et la Belgique 1860: Allemagne et quelques parties les pays limitrophes jusqu'à Strasbourg, Metz, Luxembourg, Coprnhague, Cracovie, Bude-Pesth, Venise, Milan, etc. From the beginning, Baedeker realised the importance of including quality, reliable maps in his travel guides, which were black-and-white initially. To this end, he engaged the services of Eduard Wagner of Darmstadt, a specialist in cartography, and the maps he produced for Baedeker were way ahead of the times. The first Baedeker travel guide in English
Karl Baedeker from Bädeker with the umlaut to Baedeker around 1850. Karl Baedeker was born in Essen, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, on November 3, 1801. After his schooling in Hagen, he left home in 1817 to study humanities in Heidelberg where he also worked for a while at the leading local bookseller J.C.B. Mohr. Military service followed, after which he moved to Berlin where he worked as an assistant at Georg Andreas Reimer, one of the leading booksellers in the city, from 1823 to 1825. He then returned home to Essen and worked with his father until 1827 when he