Adolf Stieler
Encyclopedia
Adolf Stieler was a German cartographer who worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institute
in Gotha
.
His atlas
es are deservedly held in high esteem for their excellence. His Handatlas
was the leading German world atlas until the middle of the 20th century, parts of which were printed until 1944.
Justus Perthes
Justus Perthes Publishers in Gotha, Germany was established in 1785. Justus Perthes was Publisher of geographic atlases, ‘’Petermann’s Geographische Mitteilungen’’ and also the Almanach de Gotha,...
in Gotha
Gotha (town)
Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...
.
His atlas
Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats...
es are deservedly held in high esteem for their excellence. His Handatlas
Stielers Handatlas
Stielers Handatlas , formally titled "Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude" , was the leading German world atlas of the last three decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century...
was the leading German world atlas until the middle of the 20th century, parts of which were printed until 1944.
External links
- 1848 Schul Atlas Online at the University of Pennsylvania