Carl Künzel
Carl or Karl Künzel (24 April 18083 February 1877) was a German autograph (manuscript), autograph-collector. Life The eldest son of city-councillor Bernhard Künzel and his wife Marie Magdalene, Carl Künzel was born in Heilbronn, where his father owned a house at 305 Metzgergasse. After leaving school, Carl's father let him sign up for an apprenticeship at the paper factory just founded in the town by the Rauch brothers and was taken on there afterwards, mainly sent out to visit customers and eventually spending 55 years there in total. Even as a young man he realised there were major gaps in his education and began filling many of them on a self-taught basis, getting up at 4 am to do so. He used work trips and contacts to customers to start building his autograph collection. From the 1860s he was mainly based in Heilbronn but holidayed in France and Italy. From the 1840s he lived at 963 Vor dem Sülmertor in Heilbronn and then from 1850 in a building at 9 Wilhelmstraße in the ...
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