Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (German for Brockhaus Encyclopedia) is a German-language encyclopedia which until 2009 was published by the F. A. Brockhaus printing house.
Brockhaus Encyclopedia | |
| Author | Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus |
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| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Subject | General |
| Genre | Encyclopedia |
| Publisher | F. A. Brockhaus AG |
Publication date | First edition in 1796–1808 Last print edition in 2005–2006 |
| Media type | 30 volumes, hardbound (21st edition, 2006); after 2006 unavailable in print, but available online |
| Pages | 24,500 (21st edition, 2006) |
| ISBN | 978-3-76-531102-4 |
| OCLC | 32477821 |
| Website | https://brockhaus.de/ecs/ |
The first edition originated in the Conversations-Lexikon published by Renatus Gotthelf Löbel and Franke in Leipzig 1796–1808. 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. It is the largest German-language printed encyclopedia in the 21st century.
In February 2008, F. A. Brockhaus announced the changeover to an online encyclopedia and the discontinuation of the printed editions. The rights to the Brockhaus trademark were purchased by Arvato services, a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann media group. After more than 200 years, the distribution of the Brockhaus encyclopedia ceased completely in 2014.