03 Aug
Baedeker Preaches Across Europe
This is the day that … Frederick Wilhelm Baedeker was born in Germany, in 1823.
At the age of 25 we find him discharged from compulsory army training due to ill-health.
In 1851 he married, but, alas, his young bride died three months later.
Sick and distraught, Baedeker set sail on a French ship (which was nearly wrecked [...]
