Crown Prince Work
As Kronprinzenwerk the 24-volume Encyclopedia regional studies is generally the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in words and pictures called that in 1883 the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Rudolf was excited. The contributions were written by 432 employees, including Crown Prince Rudolf himself, who was divorced by suicide in 1889 .
expenditure
The encyclopedia describes - sorted according to crown lands - countries, peoples, landscapes and regions of the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary . It was published in German (24 volumes) and in Hungarian (21 volumes) language ( Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia írásban és képben ). Accordingly, there were also two editorial offices. The German was headed by the writer, history and geography professor Joseph Weil von Weilen , and the Hungarian Maurus Jókai . Only the German edition was a financial success, and the Hungarian edition contains certain anti-Semitic remarks that the German one lacks.
Volumes
The German edition appeared from December 1885 to June 1902 in 398 deliveries in the publishing house of the kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei and Alfred von Hölder . They contain 587 articles on 12,596 text pages and 4,529 wood engravings.
- Volume 1: Vienna and Lower Austria , 1st division: Vienna , 1886
- Volume 2: Overview volume , 1st section: Natural history part , 1887
- Volume 3: Overview volume , 2nd section: Historical part , 1887
- Volume 4: Vienna and Lower Austria , 2nd Division: Lower Austria , 1888
- Volume 5: Hungary , Volume 1, 1888
- Volume 6: Upper Austria and Salzburg , 1889
- Volume 7: Styria , 1890
- Volume 8: Carinthia and Krain , 1891
- Volume 9: Hungary , Volume 2, 1891
- Volume 10: The Coastal Country ( Gorizia, Gradiska , Trieste and Istria ) , 1891
- Volume 11: Dalmatia , 1892
- Volume 12: Hungary , Volume 3, 1893
- Volume 13: Tyrol and Vorarlberg , 1893
- Volume 14: Bohemia , Volume 1, 1896
- Volume 15: Bohemia , Volume 2, 1896
- Volume 16: Hungary , Volume 4, 1896
- Volume 17: Moravia and Silesia , 1897
- Volume 18: Hungary , Volume 5, 1st Division, 1898
- Volume 19: Galicia , 1898
- Volume 20: Bukowina , 1899
- Volume 21: Hungary , Volume 5, 2nd section, 1900
- Volume 22: Bosnia and Herzegovina , 1901
- Volume 23: Hungary , Volume 6, 1902
- Volume 24: Croatia and Slavonia , 1902
The volume count corresponds to that given in the final word of Volume 24.
literature
- Jurij Fikfak, Reinhard Johler (Ed.): Ethnography in series. On the production and reception of the “Austro-Hungarian monarchy in words and images” . Publications of the Institute for European Ethnology, Vienna 2008, ISBN 3-90202-912-9 .
- Peter Stachel: The Harmonization of National-Political Contrasts and the Beginnings of Ethnography in Austria. In: Karl Acham (Hrsg.): History of the Austrian human sciences. Volume 4: History and Foreign Cultures. Passagen, Vienna 2002, pp. 323–368, ISBN 3-85165-471-4 .
- Justin Stagl : The "Kronprinzenwerk" - a representation of the multi-ethnic empire. In: Ákos Moravánszky (Ed.): The distant village. Modern art and ethnic artifact. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, pp. 169–182
- Christiane Zintzen (Ed.): The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in words and pictures. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-99102-8 - selected edition with introduction and indexes ( preface ).
Web links
- Entry on Kronprinzenwerk in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Kronprinzenwerk in the Austria Forum (as an e-book)
- Digital copies of some volumes in "austrian literature online"
- Digitization of the entire work by the Library of the University of Michigan
- Ethnological research project on the Kronprinzenwerk at the University of Göttingen
- The Kronprinzenwerk in the picture archive Austria of the Austrian National Library
- Honorary grave of Josef Weil von Weilen: The Crown Prince's work at the central cemetery
- The Austro-Hungarian monarchy in words and pictures. Volume 22: Bosnia and Hercegovina , 1901, e-book from the Vienna University Library