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 Deichgräber In 1951, he was partially reinstated as "professor of retraining" ("Professor zur Wiederverwendung"), but only in 1957 did he receive his old position as professor of classical philology, after succeeding emeritus professor Kurt Latte, who had been expelled by the Nazis, but had returned to Göttingen. From then on, Deichgräber taught at Göttingen until he retired in April 1968. He was succeeded by Klaus Nickau. Karl Deichgräber Karl Marienus Deichgräber (10 February 1903, Aurich, Province of Hanover – 16 December 1984, Bovenden) was a German classical philologist. Deichgräber was a member of the Nazi Party. Karl Deichgräber studied at the