Hungarian lexicon


The Hungarian lexicon (Hungarian "Magyar lexikon"), subtitled the encyclopaedia of all sciences (Hungarian "Az összes tudományok encziklopédiája"), was a general Hungarian lexicon..

History

The work appeared in Budapest between 1879 and 1885 in 160 booklets, which were later bound into 16 volumes. (There were also 17 volume versions.) The work contained 160 pictorial appendices. Its editor was Ede Somogyi. A I – XIV. published by Frigyes Rautmann. A XV. volume was published by Lajos Gerő's Publishing Office, the 16th was published by Pallas Literary and Printing Company.

The small-shaped (21 cm x 15 cm) volumes have a total volume of about 10,200 pages. The work is now rare in antique offerings. There is no reprint edition.

Order of volumes
Volume Number
Volume title
Year of publication
Number of pages
Volume I A–Asuncion 1879 640
Volume II Asuncion–Banko 1879 631
Volume III Bankok–Bianchi 1879 640
Volume IV Bianchi–Bunkócz 1879 640
Volume V Bunsen–Danhauser 1880 636
Volume VI Dánia–Encziklopédia 1880 640
Volume VII Encziklopédisták–Franczia művészet 1880 636
Volume VIII Franczia nyelv–Haute volée 1881 636
Volume IX Hautgout–Julianna 1881 636
Volume X Julianus–Könyvnyomtatás 1882 636
Volume XI Könyvornamentika–Magyar Tempe 1882 636
Volume XII Magyar tengermellék–Nogáll 1883 636
Volume XIII Nogat–Planetarium 1883 636
Volume XIV Planetoidok–Sopor 1884 624
Volume XV Sopornya–Vezér 1884 636
Volume XVI Vézére–Zsuzsok / Appendix: A–Zsuvat 1885 635

Sources
  • Volumes of the "Hungarian lexicon"
  • Kiszlingstein Sándor: Magyar könyvészet 1876–1885, Budapest, 1890
  • Antikvarium.hu
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