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Universal Hungarian encyclopaedia

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The Universal Hungarian Encyclopaedia (Hungarian "Egyetemes magyar encyclopaedia") is a 13-volume Hungarian lexicon published in the second half of the 19th century.

History

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The lexicon, made in 13 large-format (20x27 cm) volumes, was published between 1859 and 1876 in Pest (and then in Budapest after the unification) under the care of the Szent István Society. The editors of the work were János Török (1807–1874), János Pollák (1824–1884), Ferenc Laubhaimer (1833–1888). The interesting thing about the series is that it appeared not with a page, but with column numbering (the text mirror has 2 columns on 1 page), so the page number is equal to half of the column numbers. It is close to 9,300 columns, or about 4,600 to 4,700 pages.

The lexicon does not have a reprint edition, and can be viewed electronically by registration with a subscription on the Arcanum website; or without registration in the - XIII. with the exception of Volume - on the website of the Münchener Digitalisierungs Zentrum Digitale Bibliothek (see individual volumes in the list below).

Volume Function

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Volume Number
Volume title
Year of publication
Number of columns
Electronic access
Volume I A–Ajuga 1859 1059 [1]
Volume II Aka–Amerika 1860 1130 [2]
Volume III Amerikai alkotmányok–Asa 1861 1103 [3]
Volume IV Asaba–Azzolino, Á–Ázsiai társaságok 1862 1086 [4]
Volume V B–Bekker 1866 528 V./a és V./b
Volume VI Bél–Cockerill 1868 800 [5]
Volume VII Codrington–Ercylla y Zuniga 1869 799 [6]
Volume VIII Érczhegység–Görög nyelv 1870 798 [7]
Volume IX Görögország története–Joachim 1871 456 [8]
Volume X Joakáz–Lysias 1872 358 [9]
Volume XI Maár–Ozon 1873 414 [10]
Volume XII Pachydermák–Smyrna 1874 334 [11]
Volume XIII Só–Zwingli 1876 430

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