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In addition to the full encyclopedia, several abbreviated editions have been published with increasingly condensed content: The latest (2005–2006) full print version of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie is the 21st edition, with approx. The 16th edition, published 1952–1957, consisted of 12 regular volumes, two supplement volumes, and one atlas volume. A supplement volume was published in 1935. Because its 20 volumes (15,800 pages) were published from 1928–1934 which covered the period of the Weimar Republic, this edition is sometimes referred to as the Weimar Brockhaus. Preparations for the 15th edition were disrupted by World War I, and recommenced in 1925. The 14th edition was published in 1894, featuring 18,842 pages in 16 regular volumes and one supplement volume. Kurtzel died on April 24, 1871, and Pilz was sole editor until March 1872, when Gustav Stockmann joined, who was alone from April until joined by Karl Wippermann in October. Karl August Espe edited the 8th and 9th editions.Īugust Kurtzel, aided by Oskar Pilz, edited the 10th edition, assisted by Heinrich Eduard Brockhaus, and Heinrich Rudolf Brockhaus, the younger son, assisted in the 11th edition. Brockhaus died in 1823, and his two eldest sons, Friedrich and Heinrich, edited the 6th edition with Hasse's assistance in September 1823. Ludwig Ham assisted in editing the 4th and 5th editions until he left Leipzig in April 1820, when Professor F.C. Brockhaus himself edited the 2nd edition (1812–1819, 10 vols.), and, when vol. vi of the Leipzig publication by December 1808, and the already projected supplement, in 2 volumes, by 1811. The articles, often very brief, were considered excellent and trustworthy, especially on German subjects, gave references to the best books, and included biographies of living men.Īt first the name of the encyclopedia remained Konversationslexikon or Allgemeine deutsche Real-Encyklopädie für die gebildeten Stände ("General German encyclopedia for the educated") only with the 13th edition did the name Brockhaus appear in the title, and the present edition is titled Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.Ĭhristian Wilhelm Franke was to finish vol. Thirteen editions were issued during the 19th century. Full print editionsīrockhaus advertising at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2005 The deal was made at the Leipzig Book Fair on 25 October 1808 for the price of 1,800 thalers. Upon Löbel's death in 1799, Franke sold the rights to publication to Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823). Published by the Leipzig scholars Renatus Gotthelf Löbel (1767–1799) and Christian Wilhelm Franke (1765–1831) from 1796 onward, it included geography, history, and in part biography, as well as the more typical mythology, philosophy, natural history, etc. Paralleling other 18th century encyclopedias, the scope of the original Conversations-Lexikon was expanded beyond that of earlier publications, in an effort to become comprehensive. After more than 200 years, the distribution of the Brockhaus encyclopedia ceased completely in 2014. The rights to the Brockhaus trademark were purchased by Arvato services, a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann media group. Brockhaus announced the changeover to an online encyclopedia and the discontinuation of the printed editions. It is the largest German-language printed encyclopedia in the 21st century. Renamed Der Große Brockhaus in 1928 and Brockhaus Enzyklopädie from 1966, the current 21st thirty-volume edition contains about 300,000 entries on about 24,000 pages, with about 40,000 maps, graphics and tables. The first edition originated in the Conversations-Lexikon published by Löbel and Franke in Leipzig 1796–1808. The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie is a German-language encyclopedia which until 2009 was published by the F.
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