A Repository of Modern Knowledge
6-volume encyclopedia, published 1850–1855
A Repository of Modern Knowledge (Hungarian: Ujabb kori ismeretek tára), subtitled an 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 six 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 Number | Volume title | Year of publication | Number of pages | Electronic Access |
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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
- Petrik Géza: Magyarország bibliographiája 1712–1860 (I–IV.), Budapest, 1888–1892, [7]
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