The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture or the Kronprinzenwerk ("Crown Prince's Work") is a 24-volume encyclopedia of regional studies, initiated in 1883 by Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary.
The encyclopedia describes countries, peoples, landscapes and regions of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Lands. It was also published in a 21-volume Hungarian edition ("Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia írásban és képben"). The German edition was edited by the history and geography professor, Josef Weil von Weilen (1830-1889), while the Hungarian edition was edited by the novelist and dramatist Mór Jókai. Only the German edition was financially successful. The Hungarian edition includes some antisemitic remarks that are missing from the German edition.
The volumes were issued from December 1885 through June 1902 in 398 installments, from the "" (Court and State Printers) and , a publisher and bookseller. They contain 587 contributions, totaling 12,596 pages with 4,529 illustrations. The articles were written by 432 contributors, including Crown Prince Rudolf himself.Hutsul Wedding - World Digital Library ( )The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures ()
Volumes and dates Vienna and Lower Austria, 1st section: Vienna (Wien und Niederösterreich, 1. Abtheilung: Wien), 1886 Summary 1. section: Nature Historical Theil (Übersichtsband, 1. Abtheilung: Naturgeschichtlicher Theil), 1887 Overview, 2nd section: Historical Theil (Übersichtsband, 2. Abtheilung: Geschichtlicher Theil), 1887 Vienna and Lower Austria, 2nd section: Lower Austria (Wien und Niederösterreich, 2. Abtheilung: Niederösterreich), 1888 Hungary, Part 1 (Ungarn, Band 1), 1888 Upper Austria and Salzburg (Oberösterreich und Salzburg), 1889 Styria (Steiermark), 1890 Carinthia and Krain (Kärnten und Krain), 1891 Hungary, Part 2 (Ungarn, Band 2), 1891 The Littoral (Gorizia, Gradiska, Trieste and Istria) (Das Küstenland (Görz, Gradiska, Triest und Istrien), 1891 Dalmatia (Dalmatien), 1892 Hungary, Part 3 (Ungarn, Band 3), 1893 Vorarlberg and the Tyrol (Tirol und Vorarlberg), 1893 Bohemia, Part 1 (Böhmen, Band 1), 1894 Bohemia, Part 2 (Böhmen, Band 2), 1896 Hungary, Part 4 (Ungarn, Band 4), 1896 Moravia and Silesia (Mähren und Schlesien), 1897 Hungary, Part 5, 1st section (Ungarn, Band 5, 1. Abtheilung), 1898 Galicia (Galicien), 1898 Bukovina (Bukowina), 1899 Hungary, Part 5, 2nd section (Ungarn, Band 5, 2. Abtheilung), 1900 Bosnia and Hercegovina (Bosnien und Hercegowina), 1901 Hungary, Part 6 (Ungarn, Band 6), 1902 Croatia and Slavonia (Croatien und Slavonien), 1902
The volume number corresponds to the list at the end of the 24th volume. Notably, Poland is not mentioned in the encyclopaedia because, at the time, the Imperial partitions of Poland were considered final by the German authorities in the Kingdom of Prussia as well as Austria-Hungary.
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See also List of encyclopedias by language
References
External links The encyclopedia at Internet Archive