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The Great Ploetz - The Encyclopedia of World History is a chronological-topographical collection of data on world history , from prehistory and early history to the present. It has been on the book market for more than 150 years (as of 2008) in its 35th edition. The Great Ploetz is considered a standard reference work on history. It is therefore in the list of books on German history from Winfried Baumgart listed.

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history

The first edition of the Great Ploetz appeared in 1863 under the title Excerpts of the Old, Middle and Modern History as a guide and for repetitions and was founded by Karl Julius Ploetz (1819–1881). Ploetz, a high school teacher for history and French in Berlin , had been successful since 1847 with textbooks on the French language before he also devoted himself to the conception of historical textbooks.

A bilingual brochure can be considered a forerunner of the first edition of the Great Ploetz, published in 1863: Les principales dates de l'histoire universelle: Excerpts of the most important dates, names and facts from general world history . This 32-page "Ur-Ploetz" for history lessons was designed as a chronological data collection of the most important world historical events and was published in 1855 by Friedrich August Herbig . In 1880 the rights were transferred to AG Ploetz Verlag, founded by Ploetz's son in Berlin, which expanded and made known the Ploetz brand as a comprehensive historical reference work.

A little later, as a further precursor, a book appeared under the title Little Ploetz - Main Data of World History. This book, one tenth of the size of the Großer Ploetz, was available as an offer at a low price up to the 36th edition in 1998.

The AG Ploetz Verlag, initially based in Bielefeld after the Second World War, then in Würzburg, was taken over by Herder in 1972 . The constantly expanded and updated reference work (the 28th edition appeared in 1976) has already been supervised by a committee of renowned historians . Since the 29th edition (1980) the work has appeared under the title Der Große Ploetz. Extract from the story . Significant innovations in this edition consisted of a larger format, the expansion of social and economic-historical aspects as well as introductory chapters on the individual epochs and areas. In 1995 the publishing house was dissolved. The 33rd and 34th editions of the Großer Ploetz (2003, 2005) each appeared as licensed editions. The Göttingen science publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht launched the 35th and completely revised edition in 2008, also as a licensed edition.

Current edition

The 35th edition, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2008, has the subtitle The Encyclopedia of World History and has been fundamentally revised and restructured for the first time since 1980 with the collaboration of over 80 historians. The work comprises 2128 pages, contains over 200 historical maps, around 250 family tables, diagrams and tables as well as a register with more than 25,000 entries. The general conditions of each epoch are presented in systematic introductions, developments and structures over time are explained in thematic blocks. Visual innovations are, for example, the consistently four-color layout and the two-column set .

The rough structure has been adapted to the methodological and conceptual research status of historical studies and is no longer made up of seven but five parts: I prehistory, II antiquity, III the old world between approx. 500 and 1500, IV modern era approx. 1500 to 1945, V newest era 1945 This reflects the relativization of the classic epochs. Within these large chapters, the chronicle structured according to epochs, regions, states, empires or cultures is retained, supplemented by introductory text chapters and visual illustrative material. Historical shifts are also taken into account at the content level. Cultural and economic-historical aspects are included without giving up the focus of political history; the previously more pronounced Eurocentric perspective has been withdrawn. A majority of the entries have been completely rewritten or updated. The composition of the 85 authors also takes into account the demand for scientific topicality. Contributions by deceased historians were replaced and, in addition to well-known history professors, younger researchers from the guild were included. Current events and developments are recorded until spring 2008. A system of references at the beginning or end of a section enables the content of individual sub-chapters to be linked. The more than one hundred page index, divided into a person, place and subject index, works with references to other key words. The register of persons also contains biographical information.

The reference work is aimed at generally historically interested readers, schoolchildren, students and also trained historians.

Expenses (selection)

  • The big Ploetz: Excerpt from history from the beginning to the present. 31st, updated edition. Ploetz, Freiburg et al. 1991, ISBN 3-87640-375-8 .
  • The big Ploetz. The encyclopedia of world history. 35th edition, completely revised by Dieter Geiß. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Freiburg i. Br./Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-32008-2 .

Little Ploetz:

  • Julius Karl Ploetz: main dates of world history. Revised by Nax Hoffmann. Ploetz, Leipzig 1909. 17th edition.
NS time: main dates of world history. Edited by Friedrich Kähler. Fort Led Hans Volz and Gottfried Franz Litschauer. 21st edition, Leipzig 1934.
NS time: main dates of world history. Edited by Friedrich Kähler. Continued by Hans Volz and Gottfried Franz Litschauer: Main dates in world history. 25th edition. Ploetz, Berlin 1940, DNB 575399376 .
  • Little Ploetz - main dates in world history. 36th updated edition based on the 32nd edition 1977 in the arrangement by Johanna Schomerus, Freiburg (Breisgau), 3-87640-379-0.

Other works of the Ploetz brand:

  • Karl Julius Ploetz: Extract from the old, middle and recent history as a guide and for repetitions. FA Herbig, Berlin 1863. (22nd edition. Ploetz, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, DNB 575399279 )
  • The colored Ploetz. Illustrated world history from the beginning to the present. 10th updated edition. Ploetz, Freiburg / Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-87640-002-3 .
  • Ploetz - The German Democratic Republic - data, facts, analyzes. Edited by Alexander Fischer (1987), updated by Friedemann Bedürftig . Licensed edition, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89836-347-3

Another work

From 1964 to 1971 the two-volume compendium History of the German States, known as Territorien-Ploetz , was published by Ploetz-Verlag Würzburg . The first volume deals with the territories of the Holy Roman Empire up to the end of 1806, the second volume with the German states since the Congress of Vienna . A planned third volume, which was to contain a list of all territories from the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to the present, never appeared.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winfried Baumgart: List of books on German history - aids, handbooks, sources. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-32509-7 .
  2. ↑ According to DNB