Franz Xaver Gabelsberger

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
Inventor of a shorthand system
Born	9 February 1789 Munich, Germany
Died	4 January 1849 (aged 59) Munich, Germany

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 Shorthand Silver Award Medal of the Hanover Stenographen-Verein of 1863, obverse.

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.

External links

• Media related to Franz Xaver Gabelsberger at Wikimedia Commons
• Image of Gabelsberger
• Photographs of the memorial at Gabelsberger's grave
• Postage stamp showing Gabelsberger
• The Stenographic Collection (Dresden), includes various items related to Gabelsberger, originally from the Library of the Royal Saxon Stenographic Institute