Anton Wilhelm Ertl

Anton Wilhelm Ertl ( born September 10, 1654 in Munich, † after 1715 ) was a German jurist and geographer. He was known primarily as a writer and publisher of the Atlas Kurbayerischen.

1670 he joined the Jesuit High School Munich ( today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) from, and entered the Society of Jesus, which he left in 1675 but again. He then studied law at the University of Ingolstadt and married there in 1677, while still a student, Anna Maria Madalena Zollner.

Ertl was then first Hofmarksrichter in gang book, then Chief Justice of the monastery Steingaden in Wiedergeltingen ( no earlier than 1686 and no later than 1696 ) and other Swabian villages and 1705 Council and Community Counsel of the emperor and the imperial knights in Swabia.

During his time as Chief Justice in Wiedergeltingen he wrote and published in 1687 and 1690 in two parts the Kurbayerischen Atlas, a geographical description of the former Electorate of Bavaria with engravings by Johann Ulrich Krauss.