!!!Herrmann, Emanuel

b. Klagenfurt (Carinthia), June 24, 1839, 
d. Vienna, July 13, 1902, inventor of the post card, political 
economist, teacher at the Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, 
1882-1902 at the University of Technology in Vienna. In a newspaper 
article, ("Neue Freie Presse" Jan. 26, 1869) proposed "a new kind of 
correspondence by post", an open card, the size of a letter with a 
2-kreuzer stamp printed on it (stamp for a letter cost 5 kreuzer).

!Publications
Leitfaden der Wirtschaftslehre, 1870; Techn. Fragen und 
Probleme der modernen Volkswirt., 1891.

!Literature
F. Kalckhoff, Die Erfindung der Postkarte, 1911.



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