Lexicon of women

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The Lexicon of Women is a lexicographical work initiated and published by Gustav Keckeis in the early 1950s . With over 20 million characters and a few picture panels, it bundled information on specific women and equality issues in an encyclopedic compactness.

It was published in two volumes by the Zurich-based Encyclios-Verlag in 1953 and 1954. As early as 1956 there was a licensed edition for the book club Ex Libris , so that an unusually wide distribution for special lexica was achieved. In Switzerland it can often be found in second-hand bookshops and in public libraries.

The Encyclios Verlags AG was a joint project of the publishers Herbert Lang, Eugen Rentsch, Sauerländer and Hans Huber under the spiritus Rector Gustav Keckeis, in order to publish a general dictionary after the war, which takes into account the Swiss issues and conditions. In 1948 the Swiss Lexicon appeared in 7 volumes. Keckeis saw the opportunity not to abolish the publishing community immediately, but to publish a women's lexicon as a follow-up project. The project was made possible by the work of over 300 contributors. These included the Bernese professor Gertrud Woker , the Swiss translator Elisabeth Gretler , the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and leaders of women's movements or women's representatives around the world as well as the respective university experts.

So-called classic women's areas such as housekeeping or medical services were seamlessly brought together with lemmas such as feminism or gender opposition. Many of the writings listed there have not yet been accepted into public libraries.

expenditure

  • Gustav Keckeis: The lexicon of women in two volumes. Vol. 1. A - H. Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1953.
  • Gustav Keckeis: The lexicon of women in two volumes. Vol. 2. I - Z. Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the Present. In: Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner. December 1, 2011, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Keckeis, Gustav. In: Kutzbach, Karl August, Neue Deutsche Biographie 11 (1977), p. 388. 1977, accessed on October 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Swiss Lexicon. , I – VII, Encyclios, Zurich 1945–1948.