Karl Baedeker died, the "Pall Mall Gazette" described a Baedeker guidebook as being "singularly accurate", and in the English version of Jacques Offenbach's musical "La Vie parisienne" this memorable lyric rings out: "Kings and governments may err / But never Mr. Baedeker." Towards the end of his life, Baedeker told friends that he regretted not having accomplished more in his life and wondered whether his work would survive. Little did he know that the name Baedeker would one day become a synonym for a travel guide, whatever its provenance, and that Verlag Karl Baedeker, which still exists and continues to bear his
Karl Storz SE Karl Storz SE Karl Storz SE & Co. KG is a German medical device company that manufactures and sells endoscopes and surgical instruments. It was founded in Tuttlingen by Karl Storz in 1945. The company is privately owned; Storz' daughter, Sybill, took over running the company after Storz died in 1996. The company was one of the first to introduce an endoscope that delivered light using fiber optics, in 1963. It also licensed the patent for the Hopkins relay lens and introduced endoscopes including such lenses in 1965. As of 2012 it employed around 5,800 people worldwide and had annual