Meyer Joseph and his grandsons

The Meyer (Meijer) family, well-known publishers of encyclopedias and atlases, was essentially begun by Joseph (1796–1856) who founded the Bibliographisches Institut in Gotha in 1826. It moved to Hilburghausen in 1828, and wound up in Leipzig in 1874. From 1884–1914, the firm was in the hands of Joseph’s four grandsons, three of whom were also cartographers: Hans, Arndt, and Carl Emil. Some of their notable atlases: “Meyer’s Schul-Atlas der Neusten Erdbeschreibung” (39 maps), “Meyer’s
Pfennig Atlas” (115 maps), “Meyer’s Universal-Atlas” (64 maps), “Meyer’s Grosser Hand-Atlas…” (170 maps), “Ravenstein’s Hand-Atlas,” and “Historischen Atlas,” 1911.