Ewald Brabbée

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Ewald Brabbée (born February 25, 1878 in Vienna ; † November 21, 1937 there ) was an Austrian stenographer.

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Ewald Brabbée was a son of Gustav Brabbée and Elisabeth von Lötsch. His father was a mortgage liquidator for the 1st Austrian Sparkasse . He himself married the concert singer and teacher Louise Steinen in 1919, with whom he had a son.

Brabbée worked for a long time in the stenographers office of the Lower Austrian state parliament and from 1904 taught at the Vienna Commercial Academy. From 1907 he worked as a teacher at the University of Vienna and later received a call from the Technical University of Vienna .

From the turn of the century, Brabbée tried to standardize German shorthand. In 1906 his work appeared on the "Reform of the shorthand systems Gabelsberger and Stolze-Schrey and the German standard system Gabelsberger-Stolze". In 1922, as Austria's delegate in Berlin, he had a decisive influence on the new German unity shorthand . He also participated in the establishment of the speech writing and the official collection of examples for the traffic writing . In a simplification of the standard shorthand that followed many years later, he played a key role in shaping the Kulmbach system certificate from 1936.

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SURNAME Brabbée, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brabée, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian stenographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1937
Place of death Vienna