Johann Ludwig Uhland

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Noun1.Johann Ludwig Uhland - German romantic poet (1787-1862)
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1 "Sonntagsmorgen" (Johann Ludwig Uhland) Sunday Morning.
One of the first things you see upon entering the headquarters of Zeutschel GmbH, in the German town of Tubingen, is a stone slab engraved with the words of the German poet, Johann Ludwig Uhland: "Paper, as everyone knows, is only like Leaves, torn by the Wind and destroyed by the Spark." "Like the poet," says Joerg Vogler, one of Zeutschel's two CEOs, "libraries and archives all over the world have long had to live with the fact that invaluable books and ancient documents can be lost forever.