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JOHAN GEORG JUSTUS PERTHES (1749-1816)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 262 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHAN GEORG JUSTUS See also:

PERTHES (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 See also: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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