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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 .

Relief by Josef Weil von Weilen on his grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

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

Title page of volume 1

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.

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

Wikisource: Kronprinzenwerk  - sources and full texts
Commons : Kronprinzenwerk  - collection of images, videos and audio files