Swiss Lexicon

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The Swiss Lexicon is a reference work that was edited by Wilhelm Ziehr in view of the 700th anniversary of the Confederation from 1991 onwards.

The Swiss Lexicon was published by the “Verlag Schweizer Lexikon Mengis + Ziehr” in Lucerne . From 1991 to 1993 it appeared in six volumes as "Schweizer Lexikon 91". In 1998 and 1999 it was “reprinted in a twelve-volume popular edition”.

According to its own declaration, the Swiss encyclopedia contained “a portrait in 85,000 keywords: Switzerland from a Swiss perspective.” Three quarters of the content relates to Switzerland, a quarter to the rest of the world.

A lexicon with the same title was published between 1945 and 1948.

structure

Edition in 6 volumes:

  • Vol. 1: A - Cha. - 1991. - 847 pp.
  • Vol. 2: Chap - Gem. - Cop. 1992. - 858 pp.
  • Vol. 3: Gen - Cl. - Cop. 1992. - 850 pp.
  • Vol. 4: Kle - Obr. - Cop. 1992. - 858 pp.
  • Vol. 5: Obs - Soy. - Cop. 1993. - 862 pp.
  • Vol. 6: Soz - Z. - Cop. 1993. - 808 pp.

Edition in 12 volumes:

  • Vol. 1: A - construction. - Cop. 1998. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 10: Sac - Spa. - Cop. 1999. - 416 pp.
  • Vol. 11: Spa - Vei. - Cop. 1999. - 416 pp.
  • Vol. 12: Vei - Zyt. - Cop. 1999. - 385, [41] pp.
  • Vol. 2: Construction - Che. - Cop. 1998. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 3: Che - Ere. - Cop. 1998. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 4: Ere - Gen. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 5: Gen - Hof. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 6: Hof - Koe. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 7: Koe - Mar. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 8: Mar - Onl. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.
  • Vol. 9: Onn - Sac. - Cop. 1999. - 432 pp.

literature

  • Alfons Müller-Marzohl : The "Swiss Lexicon '91", a gift to our country, the largest joint journalistic work in Switzerland. In: Sprachspiegel. 1993, No. 2, pp. 33-37 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catherine Santschi: Lexica. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 21, 2008 , accessed December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Alfons Müller-Marzohl: The "Swiss Lexicon '91" * - a gift to our country . 1993, doi : 10.5169 / SEALS-421632 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on December 2, 2019]).