Spruner von Mertz, KARL

Spruner von Mertz, KARL, author of some useful historical atlases, was born at Stuttgart on 15th November 1803, joined the army of Bavaria, and taught geography in the Bavarian cadet college from 1855. His name is associated with a well-executed, and painstaking and accurate, Historisch-geographische Handatlas, in three parts (1853-64), embracing in all 139 maps; besides this he published historical atlases of Bavaria (1838), Austria (1860), and Germany (1866), and a few historical works dealing with Bavaria. He received the rank of General-lieutenant in 1869, and retired in 1886. He died at Munich, 24th August 1892.