Karl Steppes ( him. Karl Steppes ; June 21, 1843 , Wertheim - September 26, 1913 , Munich ) - German surveyor. The father of the artist Edmund Shtepes .
Entered military service, then retired and engaged in geodesy. Paving the railway Nuremberg - Regensburg - Munich. Since 1878 co-editor of the periodical on geodesy "Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen". He also published the monograph “German Geodesy” ( Das deutsche Vermessungswesen ; Stuttgart, 1880 , in collaboration with V. Jordan ).