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Karl Baedeker

1801 - 1859

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Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker ( BAY-dik-ər, German: [ˈbɛːdəkɐ]; born Bädeker; 3 November 1801 – 4 October 1859) was a German publisher whose company, Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. Karl Baedeker was descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers. He was the eldest of ten children of Gottschalk Diederich Bädeker (1778–1841), who had inherited the publishing house founded by his own father, Zacharias Gerhard Bädeker (1750–1800). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Baedeker has received more than 96,523 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karl Baedeker is the 222nd most popular businessperson (down from 192nd in 2019), the 2,106th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,731st in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Businessperson.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Karl Baedeker ranks 222 out of 847. Before him are Julius Maggi, Ghislaine Maxwell, François-Henri Pinault, John Jacob Astor, Jesse Livermore, and Andrew Grove. After him are Karl Rapp, Steve Fossett, Sheldon Adelson, Vagit Alekperov, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, and Josep Lluís Núñez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Karl Baedeker ranks 31. Before him are Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Albert Lortzing, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, David Farragut, and Marie Laveau. After him are Justo José de Urquiza, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Henri Labrouste, Johann Nestroy, Julius Plücker, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. Among people deceased in 1859, Karl Baedeker ranks 29. Before him are Alfred Vail, Carl Adolph Agardh, Yoshida Shōin, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Louis Poinsot, and Robert Stephenson. After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Zygmunt Krasiński, Nana Sahib, Sergey Aksakov, Tatya Tope, and Walter Hunt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Baedeker ranks 2,106 out of 7,253. Before him are İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Bodo Illgner (1967), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Johann Trollmann (1907), and Alfred Hettner (1859). After him are William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), Matthias Jabs (1955), and Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Karl Baedeker ranks 28. Before him are Carl Laemmle (1867), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), and John Jacob Astor (1763). After him are Karl Rapp (1882), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Hans Riegel (1923), Theo Albrecht (1922), Friedrich Bayer (1825), and Herbert Hainer (1954).

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