Meinrad Rahm

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Meinrad Rahm (born July 6, 1819 in Hallau , Canton Schaffhausen ( Switzerland ), † September 14, 1847 in Dresden ) was a Swiss stenographer .

Rahm was an autodidact who first became familiar with LF Fayet's French shorthand system. The shorthand system he later developed was based on Fayet's rules and mixed them up with loans from Franz Xaver Gabelsberger and Heinrich August Wilhelm Stolze . Since his system was unsuccessful in Switzerland , he came to Germany in 1844 and lived in Berlin and Dresden , where he further developed his font.

The most important feature of Rahm's shorthand, which was based heavily on the French nouvelle écriture , is that the characters for the consonants all end in a stick (stick principle) and are only formed on the head. The vowels are represented by amalgamating them with the common sign (at the foot). As with Gabelsberger, pressure amplification is used to differentiate. In the final vowel, the consonants usually have their own characters. To abbreviate the script, Rahm created numerous abbreviations. His font is also very suitable for developing your own abbreviations.

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SURNAME Cream, Meinrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss stenographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallau , Canton of Schaffhausen ( Switzerland )
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1847
Place of death Dresden