Gabelsberger shorthand
Taquigrafía de Gabelsberger
- Date
- 1817 (publicado 1834) · confidence high
- Place
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Credited to
- Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
The first shorthand system based on cursive letter shapes, devised by a Bavarian civil servant. It was used in German-language parliaments and in Italy and Spain.
He developed it from 1817 and published it in 1834 as Anleitung zur deutschen Redezeichenkunst.
What it led to
- parliamentary records in German
- adaptations to other languages
- German Stolze-Schrey shorthand