The Great Lexicon of Révai () is a general lexicon in Hungarian, published by the Révai Brothers Literary Institute between 1911 and 1935. The continuation of the late 20th century is the new lexicon of Révai.
History Starting from the large lexicon of Pallas, Mór János Révay wanted to create a modern lexicon containing up-to-date scientific results. Therefore, he involved almost the entire Hungarian scientific world in the editing. The editorial staff had a total of 877 staff members – it would be unworthy to highlight anyone – 149 former university professors, 50 academic members, 20 physicists and mathematicians, 27 ministers or secretaries of state, 69 lawyers and 33 doctors.
The twenty volumes without completion contain about 1,050 pages (16,671 two-column pages), 230,000 headings, about 113 million letters, and thousands of figures. The color map appendices were prepared by Révai Cartography specifically for this purpose.
Almost half of the scope is geographical (14%), legal (6.5%), world historical (6%), medical (5%), zoological (4%), botanical (3.5%), artistic (3%), deals with Hungarian historical (3%) topics.
New edition
In 1995–96, Babits Publishing House in Szekszárd published twenty-one volumes of the great lexicon of Révai in a similar edition.
It can be read electronically on the website of the Hungarian Electronic Library: http://mek.oszk.hu/06700/06758/pdf/
Order of volumes
+ Volume Number Volume title Year of publication Number of pages Volume I A–Arany 1911 822 Volume II Arány–Beke 1911 802 Volume III Béke–Brutto 1911 793 Volume IV Brutus–Csát 1912 779 Volume V Csata–Duc 1912 787 Volume VI Dúc–Etele 1912 787 Volume VII Etelka–Földöv 1913 779 Volume VIII Földpálya–Grec 1913 788 Volume IX Gréc–Herold 1913 810 Volume X Hérold–Jób 1914 875 Volume XI Jób–Kontúr 1914 875 Volume XII Kontúr–Lovas 1915 875 Volume XIII Lovas–Mons 1915 875 Volume XIV Mons–Ottó 1916 916 Volume XV Ottó–Racine 1922 811 Volume XVI Racine–Sodoma 1924 873 Volume XVII Sodoma–Tarján 1925 875 Volume XVIII Tarján–Vár 1925 788 Volume XIX Vár–Zsüri +completion: Aachen–Beöthy 1926 866 Volume XX completion: Bér–Zsolt 1927 872 Volume XXI completion: A–Z 1935 856
Sources volumes of the work OSzK Révay Mór János sírja a Kerepesi Temetőben Iskolázás, értelmiség és tudomány a 19–20. századi Magyarországon