This article investigates whether remembrance of Konrad Duden is kept alive by contemporary Germans and whether he still bears any importance to them. The article provides, first, some information on Duden’s life, the places in which he lived and worked and how these places look today. Secondly, the linguist’s activity in the towns Wesel, Soest, Schleiz and Bad Hersfeld is traced and documented. The last part of the article assesses living Germans’ knowledge of Duden and the associations his name evokes in them. In order to back the conclusions empirically the results of a questionnaire conducted among 100 people without philological education are presented. It can be showed that remembrance of Konrad Duden is still lively. It is particularly widespread at the places he had worked in and of significant importance outside. He is considered as the reformer of the German writing system who also strengthened the sense of unity in Germans.