New Zealand Australia Gotha Justus Perthes
New Zealand Australia Gotha Justus Perthes 1872 Atlas. Perthes Johan Georg Justus 1749 – 1816 German publisher was born in Rudolstadt in 1749. In 1785 he founded at Gotha the business which bears his name Justus Perthes. In this he was joined in 1814 by his son Wilhelm 1793 – 1853. He laid the foundation of the Geographical Branch of the business for which it is chiefly famous by publishing the and-Atlas (1817-1823) of Adolf Stieler (1775-1836). Wilhelm Perthes engaged the collaboration of the most eminent German geographers of the time including Heinrich Berghaus Christian Gottlieb Reichard Karl Spruler and Emil von Sydow. The business passed to his son Bernard Wilhelm Perthes (1821-1857). In 1863 the firm first issued the Almanach de Gotha a statistical Historical and genealogical Annual (in French) of the various countries of the world.
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