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 Baedeker clarity, detail and accuracy. From "Baedeker: Ein Name wird zur Weltmarke" Karl Baedeker's list : 1828: Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln; Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende 1829: Extract from 'Rheinreise'. 1829: Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne 1829: Coblence; an extract from 'Le Rhin'. 1839: Moselreise von Trier bis Koblenz mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen 1835: Holland 1835: Belgien 1842: Handbuch für Reisende durch Deutschland und den Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaat 1844: Schweiz 1847: Bad Bertrich im Uesbachthale an der Mosel 1851: Handbuch für Reisende in Deutschland, Erster Theil: Oesterreich, Süd- und West-Deutschland 1852: La Suisse 1853: Handbuch für Reisende in Oesterreich 1855: Südbayern,