Background
Johann Georg Justus Perthes was born at Rudolstadt, Germany on the 11th of September 1749.
(Excerpt from Almanach de Gotha, 1875, Vol. 112: Annuaire ...)
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Johann Georg Justus Perthes was born at Rudolstadt, Germany on the 11th of September 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), who had been in the establishment of Justus' nephew, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, at Hamburg.
Justus died at Gotha on the 2nd of May 1816.
(Excerpt from Almanach de Gotha, 1875, Vol. 112: Annuaire ...)
He had a son, Wilhelm, who at the death of Justus, took entire control of the firm. Wilhelm Perthes engaged the collaboration of the most eminent German geographers of the time. The business passed to his son Bernard Wilhelm Perthes (1821- 1857).