A repository of modern knowledge
A repository of modern knowledge (Hungarian "Ujabb kori ismeretek tára"), subtitled a Encyclopedia of sciences and political social life (Hungarian "Tudományok és politikai társas élet encyclopædiája") is a Hungarian lexicon published in the middle of the 19th century.
History[]
The large-scale work published by Gusztáv Heckenast in Pest between 1850 and 1855 processed the various branches of knowledge in 6 volumes. There is still no facsimile edition of the work, but the volumes are available in electronic form free of charge from Google Books, cf. below.
Order of volumes[]
Volume I | Aargau – Brockhaus | 1850 | 684 | [1] |
Volume II | Brodzinszky – Ehrenfels | 1850 | 666 | [2] |
Volume III | Eichendorff – Girardin | 1851 | 666 | [3] |
Volume IV | Girod de l'Ain – Kazan | 1852 | 672 | [4] |
Volume V | Kazinczy – Pauperismus | 1853 | 664 | [5] |
Volume VI | Paxton – Zürich | 1855 | 627 | [6] |
Sources[]
- : Magyarország bibliographiája 1712–1860 (I–IV.), Budapest, 1888–1892, [7]
Categories:
- Hungarian encyclopedias
- 19th-century encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia stubs