View source for Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste

[[Image:Allgemeine encyclopaedie.png|thumb|Title page of volume 1]]

The '''''Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste''''' ("Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts") was a 19th-century German [[encyclopaedia]] published by [[Johann Samuel Ersch]] and [[Johann Gottfried Gruber]], therefore also known as the "Ersch-Gruber." One of the most ambitious encyclopaedia projects ever, it remained uncompleted.

It was designed and begun in 1813 by Professor Ersch to satisfy the wants of Germans, only in part supplied by foreign works. It was stopped by the war until 1816, when Professor [[Gottlieb Hufeland]] joined, but he died on November 25, 1817, while the specimen part was at press. The first volume appeared in Leipzig in 1818. The editors of the different sections at various times were some of the best-known men of learning in Germany, including Gruber, M.H.E. Meier, [[Hermann Brockhaus]], W. Müller and [[Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann|A.G. Hoffmann]] of Jena.

The work is divided into three sections: (1) A-G (99 vols.), (2) H-N (43 vols.), (3) O-Z (25 vols.). All articles bear the authors' names, and those not ready in time were placed at the end of their letter. By 1889 the encyclopaedia had reached 167 volumes when it was abandoned. The article about Greece alone covered 3,668 pages, spanning eight volumes. Section 1 was completed, but section 2 only up to the entry "Ligatur", and section 3 up to "Phyxios".

==References==
*{{1911}}

==External links==
*[http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cache/toc/D141451.html Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste] (scanned page images)

[[Category:German encyclopedias]]
[[Category:Reference works in the public domain]]

[[de:Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste]]
[[es:Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste]]
[[it:Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste]]
[[lt:Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste]]
[[zh:科學與藝術綜合大百科全書]]
[[Category:2Fix]]