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F. A. Brockhaus AG was a German book publishing firm founded by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus.It was best known for its eponymous encyclopedia and other renown bedrock brands for lexical functional grammar such as Duden, Meyers or the Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag and Kunstverlag Weingarten.
In the years 1842–1848, Heinrich Brockhaus was member of the Saxon second chamber, as representative for Leipzig, was made honorary citizen of that city in 1872, and died there on 15 November 1874. [1] His firm continues under the name F. A. Brockhaus AG in his honor. He is also the eponym of 27765 Brockhaus, a main-belt asteroid discovered ...
The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (German for Brockhaus Encyclopedia) is a German-language encyclopedia which until 2009 was published by the F. A. Brockhaus printing house.. The first edition originated in the Conversations-Lexikon published by Renatus Gotthelf Löbel and Franke in Leipzig 1796–1808.
Der kleine Brockhaus from 1949. Der kleine Brockhaus (English: The little Brockhaus) is the name of a series of encyclopedias published by F. A. Brockhaus.It was published as an alternative to the Großer Brockhaus (big Brockhaus) which are the main encyclopedia published by the same company.
In 1889, the owner of one of the St. Petersburg printing houses, Ilya Abramovich Efron , at the initiative of Semyon Afanasyevich Vengerov, entered into an agreement with the German publishing house F. A. Brockhaus for the translation into Russian of the large German encyclopaedic dictionary Brockhaus Enzyklopädie into Russian as ...
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In 1984 Bibliographisches Institut AG amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, F. A. Brockhaus of Wiesbaden to Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG, [5] having their seat in Mannheim. After the German reunification the company regained its former properties in Leipzig in 1991. [6]
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.