Stieler, Adolf
Stieler, Adolf ä´dôlf shtē´lər [key], 1775–1836, German cartographer. He worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institution, Gotha, which published his general atlas (1817–22; 10th ed. tr. 1934–39).
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