The Lexicon of Time
The ZEIT-Lexikon or Die Zeit - the lexicon with the best from the time in 20 volumes is a multi-volume reference work in German . The first edition was published in 2004/05 by Zeitverlag in cooperation with the Bibliographisches Institut Mannheim .
Objective of the work
In the editorial foreword to the first volume of the 1st edition, the aim of the work is described:
“The word about the knowledge society we live in today continues to provoke different reactions. To some it sounds like a promise, to others find it threatening. But whatever the knowledge-based society may mean for people, wherever it will lead, its motto is clear and means: Learn! [...] The »Lexicon of TIME« wants to meet this demand. The twenty volumes […] represent an experiment. Two journalistic cultures come together for this project: Proven lexicography is combined with […] journalism. The result is a combination of equally worth knowing and well-founded facts and opinions, [...] information and interpretations. […] Most of the texts reflect the current state of knowledge, some are ZEIT history. In a bundle, they should offer what this lexicon wants to convey: not just what we know today, also what we once thought. "
The work comes closer to this goal, among other things, by presenting ZEIT background reports on the most important topics and people in the appendix to each volume ( ZEIT aspects ) .
Book editions
- Die Zeit, the lexicon in 20 volumes. Zeitverlag, Hamburg, and Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, 2005, ISBN 3-411-17560-5 .
The first edition was 550,000 complete works. Volumes 1–16 form the lexically structured part of the work and cover 145,000 keywords with around 8,000 illustrations, maps and tables. These volumes are supplemented by a three-volume dictionary (volumes 17-19) with around 250,000 words and a quotation volume (volume 20) with around 5,000 quotes and phrases.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press kit 2009. (PDF, 2095 KB) (No longer available online.) Zeitverlag, July 2009, p. 22 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 19, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 20-volume ZEIT encyclopedia now complete. (No longer available online.) Zeitverlag, March 23, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 19, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The 20-volume ZEIT lexicon series starts on November 11th. (No longer available online.) Zeitverlag, November 10, 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 19, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
