How to Pronounce Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
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Feb 09, 1789 Munich, Bavaria, Germany Died on 04 Jan 1849 (aged 59)
German inventor of writing system
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About Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
- Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (9 February 1789 – 4 January 1849, both in Munich) was a German inventor of a shorthand writing system, named Gabelsberger shorthand after him. Gabelsberger, employed as typist by the Bavarian government, started to develop a new shorthand system at age of 28.
- His system was first fully described in the textbook Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst oder Stenographie (1834) and became rapidly used.
- He is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.
