List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

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This is a list of notable encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge. For the purposes of this list, an encyclopedia is defined as a "compendium that contains information on either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge." For other sorting standards, see List of encyclopedias.

General knowledge

Catalan

  • Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana – Catalan-language encyclopedia, started in fascicles, and published in 1968 by Edicions 62 (ca)

Chinese

  • Encyclopedia of China
  • Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China – Chinese language encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)
  • Yongle Encyclopedia – once contained 11,095 volumes and around 370 million Chinese characters but now contains less than 400 volumes

Czech

  • Riegrův slovník naučný – first Czech encyclopedia published in 1860–1874 with 11 volumes, supplement vol. in 1890, online)
  • Otto's encyclopedia – largest Czech-language encyclopedia published between 1888 and 1908 (28 vols) and 1930–1943 (12 vols, incomplete). Volumes 1–28 online
  • Příruční slovník naučný – first post-war encyclopedia. With strong communist ideology. Four volumes, 1962–1967.
  • Malá československá encklopedie – Small Czechoslovak encyclopedia, it was supposed to be forerunner to Great Czechoslovak encyclopedia that was never published, 6 volumes, 1984–1987.
  • Diderot (8 volumes, 1999–2000)
  • Universum (10 volumes, 1999–2001)
  • Czech Wikipedia (2002–)

Danish

  • Den Store Danske Encyklopædi

Dutch

  • Winkler Prins – published in print between 1870 and 1993 and made available digitally to the present day
  • Oosthoek – published between 1907 and 1981
  • Christelijke Encyclopedie – published between 1926 and 2005
  • Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie – published between 1946 and 1952
  • Standaard Encyclopedie – published between 1969 and 1974 by Standaard Uitgeverij Antwerpen
  • Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie – published between 1971 and 1979
  • Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie – published between 1974 and 1980

English

  • Academic American Encyclopedia – 21-volume work published in 1980, also issued by Grolier under the names Barnes & Noble New American Encyclopedia, Global International Encyclopedia, Grolier Academic Encyclopedia, Grolier International Encyclopedia, Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia, and Macmillan Family Encyclopedia
  • Chambers's Encyclopaedia – published in 1859 by W. Chambers and R. Chambers
  • The Children's Encyclopedia – by Arthur Mee, published 1908–64 in the UK and in the US starting in 1910 as Grolier's The Book of Knowledge
  • Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia – published by Dorling Kindersley
  • Collier's Encyclopedia
  • Columbia Encyclopedia – one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000
  • The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge (1891)
  • Compton's Encyclopedia – 26-volume encyclopedia
  • Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
  • Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences – 1728 publication by Ephraim Chambers
  • Dobson's Encyclopædia – first encyclopedia printed in the United States, but mostly a reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition
  • Edinburgh Encyclopædia – 18 volumes printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830
  • Encyclopædia Britannica – one of the best-known encyclopedias in English, online-only since 2010
  • Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite – DVD version of Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Encyclopædia Metropolitana – 39 volumes in 59 parts published between 1817 and 1845
  • Encyclopedia Americana – both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • English Cyclopaedia – 23 volumes, published 1854–1862
  • English Encyclopaedia – 10 volumes, published in 1802
  • Everybody's Enquire Within – illustrated book of miscellaneous knowledge issued in weekly instalments from 1937 to 1938
  • Everyman's Encyclopaedia – published by Joseph Dent from 1913 as part of the Everyman's Library
  • Everything2 – collaborative Web-based database of interlinked user-submitted articles
  • Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia – first published in 1912; changed its name to Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia in 1931
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia – electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier
  • Groliers Encyclopedia
  • Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia – edited by John Alexander Hammerton and published 1921–22
  • Hutchinson Encyclopedia – single-volume work first published in 1948
  • New American Cyclopedia – 16 volumes published between 1857 and 1866
  • Nupedia – peer reviewed, open content online encyclopedia project, currently inactive
  • Open Site – effort inspired by, but not officially affiliated with, the Open Directory Project
  • Oracle Encyclopædia – five-volume encyclopedia published in 1895
  • An Outline of Modern Knowledge – published in 1931 by Victor Gollancz
  • Pears Cyclopaedia – one-volume encyclopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom
  • Probert Encyclopaedia – online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom
  • World Book Encyclopedia – designed for family use; the world's best selling print encyclopedia

French

German

  • Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste – very large 19th-century encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber
  • Brockhaus Enzyklopädie – best-known encyclopedia in German, online-only since 2014
  • Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon – huge 18th-century encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler
  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon

Italian

  • Treccani – also known as Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Latin

  • Lexicon Universale – published in 1698

Persian

  • The Book of Healing – 30-volume Persian-language encyclopedia published by Avicenna (Persian: ابن سینا‎) in 1027 (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, Latin: Sufficientia)
  • The Persian Encyclopedia (Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی‎) – three-volume encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab, partially based on the early editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia

Polish

  • Nowe Ateny – published in 1745–1746
  • Universal Encyclopedia – 1859, 28 volumes, Orgelbrand
  • Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN – 1962–1970, 13 volumes, PWN
  • Wielka Encyklopedia PWN – 2001–2005, 31 volumes, PWN

Portuguese

  • Infopédia [pt] – since 2003
  • Barsa – since 1964
  • Diciopédia [pt] – 1997–2009
  • Enciclopédia Verbo Luso-Brasileira de Cultura – Edição Século XXI (pt) (Verbo Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædia of Culture – 21st-Century Edition) – 1998–2009
  • Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira (Grand Portuguese and Brazilian Encyclopædia) – 1936–1999
  • Grande Enciclopédia Larousse Cultural (pt) (Grand Cultural Encyclopædia Larousse) – 1998
  • Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura [pt] (Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædia of Culture) – 1963–1995
  • Lello Universal – Dicionário Enciclopédico Luso-Brasileiro (Lello Universal – Luso-Brazilian Encyclopædic Dictionary)
  • Conhecer (To Know) – 1966–1981, adapted from Knowledge
  • Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional [pt] (International Mirador Encyclopædia) – 1976
  • Enciclopédia Infantil Verbo [pt] ( Verbo Children's Encyclopædia) – 1976
  • Grande Enciclopédia Delta Larousse (Delta Larousse Grand Emcyclopædia) – 1970, adapted from the Grand Larousse encyclopédique
  • Focus – Enciclopédia Internacional (Focus – International Encyclopædia) – 1964
  • Enciclopédia Delta Larousse (Delta Larousse Encyclopædia) – 1960, adapted from the Encyclopédie Larousse méthodique
  • Trópico – Enciclopédia Ilustrada em Cores (pt) (Trópico – Colour Illustrated Encyclopædia) – 1957
  • Enciclopédia Brasileira Globo [pt] (Globo Brazilian Encyclopædia) – 1943
  • Tesouro da Juventude (Youth's Thesaurus) – 1920, adapted from The Children's Encyclopædia

Russian

  • Brockhaus and Efron – imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes
  • Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая Советская Энциклопедия) – second largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian; there were three editions; the third edition of 1969–78 contains 30 volumes
  • Great Russian Encyclopedia – universal Russian encyclopedia, completed in 36 volumes (2004–2017)

Slovak

  • Slovenský náučný slovník. 3 volumes 1932. First general encyclopedia in Slovak language.
  • Pyramída. Published between 1971 and 1990 in journal form (224 issues).
  • Malá slovenská encyklopédia. 1 volume 1993
  • Encyclopaedia Beliana. 20 planned volumes, 1999–, 9 volumes published as of 2021
  • Všeobecný encyklopedický slovník. 2002, four volumes
  • Slovak Wikipedia. 2003–
  • Univerzum – všeobecná obrazová encyklopédia A – Ž. 1 volume, 2011

Slovenian

  • Enciklopedija Slovenije

Spanish

  • Enciclopedia Libre Universal (also known as Enciclopedia Libre) – project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software, released under the GFDL
  • Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana – largest encyclopedia of its time; also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe

Swedish

  • Nationalencyklopedin – encyclopedia in Swedish
  • Susning.nu – project to create a Swedish-language encyclopedia using wiki software; an anyone-can-edit encyclopedia until 2004; shut down in 2009

Turkish

  • Anabritannica – published in Turkey and based on the Britannica Micropædia

Ukrainian

  • Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (Українська радянська енциклопедія) – encyclopedia in Ukrainian; its first edition was 17 volumes

Multiple languages

  • Microsoft Encarta – computer-based encyclopedia published by Microsoft, now discontinued
  • Wikipedia – world's largest free encyclopedia; a project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia using wiki software

Specialized encyclopedias

National, regional, ethnic or cultural

Australia

  • Australian Encyclopaedia (1925, 1958, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1996)

Austria

  • aeiou Encyclopedia (1996ff.)

Bangladesh

  • Banglapedia – 10 volumes published in 2003; bilingual; English and Bengali

Brazil

Canada

Croatia

  • Hrvatska opća enciklopedija (started in 1999 – 7th vol. 2005 of 11)

Ethiopia

  • Encyclopaedia Aethiopica – basic reference work for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies

Germany

  • Deutsche Biographie (Biographical dictionary of Germans)

Iceland

  • Icelandic Encyclopedia A–Ö

Iran

Italy

  • Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical dictionary of Italians) – Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malaysia

  • The Encyclopedia of Malaysia – published from 1998 to 2007

Morocco

  • Maelimat al-maghrib (Arabic: معلمة المغرب) – published between 1989 and 2006 totaling 27 volumes.

New Zealand

  • The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908) – unofficial; most subjects paid to have their articles appear; online at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
  • An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966–) – official
  • The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (2005–) – official, incorporating the full text of An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

Poland

  • Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland) – 2005, 10 volumes

Portugal

Slovakia

  • Encyklopédia Slovenska. (Encyclopedia of Slovakia) 6 volumes, 1977–1982.

Slovenia

  • Enciklopedija Slovenije – published in 1987–2002

Sweden

  • Nordisk familjebok – encyclopedia in Swedish

Ukraine

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine – English five-volume version of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies
  • Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine – online version of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine[1]
  • Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine – multi-volume comprehensive encyclopedia about Ukraine from the 20th and 21st centuries[2]

United Kingdom

  • The London Encyclopaedia – 1007-page reference of the city of London; pub. 1983

United States

Yugoslavia

  • Enciklopedija Jugoslavije
  • Opća enciklopedija JLZ (1977–82)

Field

Art and architecture

Entertainment

  • Allgame – comprehensive online guide to computer and video games created by All Media Guide
  • Allmovie – comprehensive online guide to movies created by All Media Guide
  • Allmusic – comprehensive online guide to music created by All Media Guide
  • The Aurum Film Encyclopedia
  • The Motion Picture Guide

Environmental science

  • Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) – electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society
  • Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) – sponsored by UNESCO—an interdisciplinary encyclopedia, inspired by the sustainable development movement

Fashion and dress

Fiction

History and biography

  • African American National Biography
  • Africana – The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
  • American National Biography
  • Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography – 19th-century American encyclopedia
  • Conspiracy Encyclopedia
  • An Encyclopedia of World History – single-volume work; First Edition, 1940; Sixth Edition, 2001
  • Encyklopedia Polski
  • Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
  • Grandes Personagens da Nossa História [pt] (Great Figures of our History) – Brazilian encyclopædia published in 1969
  • Grandes Personagens da História Universal [pt] (Great Figures of World History) – Brazilian encyclopædia published in 1970
  • Lexikon des Mittelalters – German encyclopedia of medieval history, published in 1980
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary – despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity

Law

  • American Jurisprudence
  • Corpus Juris Secundum
  • Halsbury's Laws of Australia
  • Halsbury's Laws of England
  • Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia
  • Encyclopedia of Law
International and comparative law

Library and Information Science

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Literature

  • Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
  • Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
  • The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction – first published in 1979 by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
  • Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature
  • Literary Encyclopedia (Литературная энциклопедия) – 11 volumes, 1929–39 (incomplete; 12th volume draft later published)
  • The Literary Encyclopedia – online encyclopedia started in 2000
  • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural – published in 1986; edited by Jack Sullivan
  • The Poets' Encyclopedia – edited by Michael Andre
  • Soviet Concise Literary Encyclopedia – Soviet-era encyclopedia of literature; 9 volumes published between 1962 and 1978
  • Cyrillo-Methodian Encyclopedia of the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1985 to 2003.

Mathematics

Medicine

  • Kitab al-Tasrif (The Method of Medicine) – by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
  • The Canon of Medicine – by Avicenna
  • Encyclopedia of Public Health
  • Medical Compendium in Seven Books – by Paul of Aegina in the 7th century CE; it was the most complete medical encyclopedia in its day
  • Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Music

  • Eerste Nederlandse Pop Encyclopedie
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music
  • The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
  • Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  • Músicos do Brasil: Uma Enciclopédia Instrumental [pt] (Musicians of Brazil: an Instrumental Encyclopædia)

Nautical

Philosophy

Religion

Christianity
  • Agiologio Lusitano [pt] – 17th-century (1652–1744) Portuguese encyclopædia on hagiography and ecclesiastical matters
  • The Catholic Encyclopedia – 1907–1912 (15 vls.)
  • Encyclopædia Biblica
  • Encyclopedia of Christianity – John Stephen Bowden, ed., 1 vol., Oxford UP, 2006
  • Encyclopedia of Mormonism
  • Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche – 1930–38 (10 vls.)
  • New Catholic encyclopedia – 1967–96 (15 vls. and 4 supplementary vls.); 2. ed. 2003 (15 vls.)
  • Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) – Hrsg. Gerhard Müller. 38 vls.; Berlin 1977–2007
  • Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism – Hawthorn Books. 150 vls.; New York City 1958–1971
Islam
Judaism
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica – published 1972–91, second edition 2006
  • Jewish Encyclopedia – published 1901–06; original full 12 volumes
  • Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian – 11 volumes, published 1976–2005 in Jerusalem
  • Talmudic Encyclopedia
  • The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe – Yale University Press, 2008
Hinduism

Science

Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Social sciences

Economics

Sports

Other

See also

  • List of encyclopedias by language (English)
  • List of historical encyclopedias
  • List of online encyclopedias
  • Lists of encyclopedias

References

  1. ↑ "Home, Encyclopedia of Ukraine". https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/default.asp. Retrieved 2016-12-31. 
  2. ↑ "Енциклопедія Сучасної України". https://esu.com.ua/. Retrieved 2016-12-31. 



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