Karl Baedeker name, would, in its heyday which lay ahead, become the premier and most successful travel guide publishing house in the world. Karl Baedeker died in Koblenz on October 4, 1859. He was only 57. In The New Yorker profile of the "House of Baedeker" Herbert Warren Wind wrote: "For years, he had attempted to do the work of several men, preparing the new guidebooks single-handedly and periodically revising the older ones. At length, his sturdy physical endowment had worn out under the strain." Michael Wild wrote in his article mentioned earlier: "It is a moot point whether he invented tourism
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