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PERTHES, JOHAN GEORG JUSTUS (1749-1816)

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PERTHES, JOHAN GEORG JUSTUS (1749-1816) , See also:German publisher, was See also:born at See also:Rudolstadt on the I1th of See also:September 1749. In 1785 he founded at See also:Gotha the business which bears his name (Justus Perthes). In this he was joined in 1814 by his son Wilhelm (1793—1853), who had been in the See also:establishment of Justus' See also:nephew, See also:Friedrich Christoph Perthes, at See also:Hamburg. On the See also:death of Justus at Gotha on the and of May 1816, Wilhelm took entire See also:control of the See also:firm. He laid the See also:foundation of the See also:geographical See also:branch of the business, for which it is chiefly famous, by See also:publishing the See also:Hand-See also:atlas (1817—1823) of Adolf Stieler (1775—1836). Wilhelm Perthes engaged the collaboration of the most eminent German geographers of the See also:time, including Heinrich See also:Berghaus, See also:Christian Gottlieb Reichard (1758—1837), who was associated with Stieler in the compilation of the atlas, Karl Spruner (1803—1892) and Emil von Sydow (1812—1873). The business passed to his son See also:Bernard Wilhelm Perthes (1821—1857), who was associated with See also:August See also:Petermann (under whose direction the well-known periodical Petermanns Mitteilungen was founded) and See also:Bruno Hassenstein (1839—1902); and subsequently to his son Bernard (1857— ). In 1863 the firm first issued the Almanach de Gotha, a statistical, See also:historical and genealogical See also:annual (in See also:French) of the various countries of the See also:world; and in 1866 the elaborate Geographisches Jahrbuch was produced under the editorship of See also:Ernst Behm (183o-1884), on whose death it was continued under that of See also:Professor See also:Hermann See also:Wagner.

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