The Brockhaus Encyclopedia - The Brockhaus Encyclopedia (English)

Japanese: ブロックハウス百科事典 - ぶろっくはうすひゃっかじてん（英語表記）Der Grosse Brockhaus

Germany's leading encyclopedia. Published by the Brockhaus Company in the former West Germany. In 1808, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772-1823), a bookseller born in Dortmund, bought the copyright to the Frauenzimmer-Lexikon (Household Encyclopedia) from a bankrupt publisher, and in 1811 completed it in six volumes under the title Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (Conversation Dictionary), with two additional volumes added. The second edition began the following year, and was very well received for its thorough use of small topics, simple explanations, and many illustrations. It was translated into several countries and became internationally famous. Between 1829 and 1833, Francis Lieber (1800-1872) published 16 volumes of the Encyclopedia Americana in America, but most of it was Brockhaus's translation, with additional American topics. In addition, William Chambers (1800-1883) published Chambers's Encyclopaedia in 10 volumes in England between 1859 and 1868, which was based on Brockhaus's 10th edition and added British topics to it. Other works that imitated Brockhaus's small-topic approach and simple explanations include the American New International Encyclopaedia (1902) and the Dutch Grote Winkler Prins (1870-1882), and in Russia Ephron published the Brockhaus-Ephron Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar' (1890-1907), 82 volumes with 4 supplements, in collaboration with Brockhaus. The influence of his work can also be seen in the encyclopedias of Larousse in France and Meyers in Germany.

[Mitsunaga Yayoshi]

Recent Version

From 1966 to 1976, the 17th edition of Brockhaus was published under the title Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (Enzyklopädie), followed by an atlas in 1975 and a supplement in 1976. It contains 225,000 entries, following the tradition of sub-topicalism. Major entries are generally given just over a page, with important entries devoted to several pages. Sub-entries are general or intensive in nature, and related items or personalities are explained separately and linked to the parent entry by an asterisk. For example, the entry on ukiyo-e is taken up by one third of a page, and a dozen or so representative artists are explained as separate entries and linked by cross-references. From 1977 to 1982, the 18th edition was published under the current title of the 15th edition, as a 12-volume encyclopedia.

[Mitsunaga Yayoshi]

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Japanese:

ドイツを代表する百科事典。旧西ドイツのブロックハウス社発行。1808年、ドルトムント生まれの書籍商ブロックハウスFriedrich Arnold Brockhaus（1772―1823）は、破産した出版社の『家庭百科事典』Frauenzimmer-Lexikonの著作権を買収し、11年に『会話事典』Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikonと命名して6巻で完成、さらに補遺2巻を加えた。翌年第2版に着手、その小項目主義を徹底させ、また説明も平易で図版も多かったので大いに歓迎され、その翻訳が数か国で行われて国際的にも有名になった。29～33年に、アメリカでリーバーFrancis Lieber（1800―72）が『アメリカーナ百科事典』Encyclopedia Americana16巻を発行したが、大部分はブロックハウスの翻訳であり、それにアメリカの事項を加えたものであった。また、59～68年にイギリスでチェンバーズWilliam Chambers（1800―83）が『チェンバーズ大百科事典』Chambers's Encyclopaedia10巻を発行したが、これもブロックハウスの10版によっており、それにイギリス関係事項を加えたものであった。そのほか、ブロックハウスの小項目主義と平易な解説を模倣したものにアメリカの『新国際百科事典』The New International Encyclopaedia（1902）、オランダの『ウィンクラー・プリンス百科事典』Grote Winkler Prins（1870～82）があり、ロシアではエフロンがブロックハウスとの共同出版による『ブロックハウス・エフロン百科事典』Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar'、（1890～1907）82巻・補遺4巻を発行した。また、フランスのラルースLarousseやドイツのマイヤーMeyersの百科事典にも、その影響がみられる。

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