Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
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Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.
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Country | Germany |
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Language | German |
Subject | General |
Genre | Encyclopedia |
Publisher | Bibliographisches Institut |
Publication date | 1839–1984 |
ISBN | 9781146317030 |
OCLC | 848096109 |
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Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house Bibliographisches Institut in 1826, intended to issue a universal encyclopaedia meant for a broad public: people having a general knowledge as well as businessmen, technicians and scholars, considering contemporary works like those of Pierer and Brockhaus to be superficial or obsolete.