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The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie is the most famous reference work in German language and was published by the publishing house F.A. Brockhaus until 2009. After more than 200 years, distribution of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie was discontinued in 2014, since when it has been published exclusively as an online edition 1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockhaus_Enzyklop%C3%A4die [23.11.2020].
History
The predecessor of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie was the Conversations-Lexicon, which first appeared in the 18th century. This encyclopaedia, published since 1796 by the Leipzig scholars Renatus Gotthelf Löbel (1767-1799) and Christian Wilhelm Franke (1765-1831), contained articles on geography, history, philosophy, mythology, natural history, etc.
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772-1823) 
bought the publishing rights for the Conversations-Lexicon for 1800 thalers at the Leipzig book fair in 1808. The foundation of Brockhaus‘ success was laid with the 2nd edition, which was published Easter 1812 under the title Conversations-Lexicon oder enzyklopädisches Handwörterbuch für gebildete Stände, comprising eight volumes. During the 19th century 13 editions were published. The articles, most of which were concise, were considered to be excellently researched and trustworthy.
Later the name Der Große Brockhaus was used for the encyclopedia, and since the 17th edition in 1966 the name Brockhaus Enzyklopädie has become established. Until 2009, the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie was published by F. A. Brockhaus or the Mannheim-based publishing house Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG. In 2013 it was announced that the encyclopedia would only be published online 2Ende einer Ära: Brockhaus-Lexika droht das Aus. Spiegel Online, Spiegel Online, 11. Juni 2013[07.12.2020] 3H. Spiegel (2013), and in 2014 the distribution of the printed edition was discontinued. 4A. Kramer (2017) Since 2015 the online edition of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie has been developed and marketed by NE GmbH (Sweden).
Editions and volumes
While the 2nd edition of 1812 was still in eight volumes, the 14th edition of 1894 already consisted of 16 regular volumes and one supplement volume, featuring 18,842 pages. Preparations for the 15th edition were disrupted by World War I, but were continued during the Weimar Republic. The 15th edition was finally published in 1934, featuring 20 volumes (15,800 pages), and a supplement volume published in 1935. The 21st edition (2005-2006) of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, the latest full print version, contains about 300,000 entries on about 24,000 pages, with about 40,000 maps, graphics and tables. It is the largest German-language printed encyclopedia in the 21st century. Over the years, several abbreviated editions have been published in addition to the full encyclopedia, such as the Kleineres Brockhaus’sches Conversations-Lexikon für den Hausgebrauch (“Minor Brockhaus Encyclopedia for Home Use”) in 1854 (4 volumes) or Der Volks-Brockhaus (“The People’s Brockhaus”), the first single-volume version, first published in 1931 (1040 pages in the 15th edition in 1975).