The ''Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie'' (abbr. GNLE) is a
Dutch-language
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encyclopaedia
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based on the
French ''
Grand Larousse encyclopédique'', which appeared from 1971 to 1979 in 25 volumes. The project of
publisher
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Heideland-Orbis (
Hasselt) was larger in scope than its example, as well as the then existent Dutch encyclopaedias ''
Winkler Prins
The ''Winkler Prins'' is a Dutch-language encyclopedia, founded by the Dutch poet and clergyman Anthony Winkler Prins (1817–1908) and published by Elsevier. It has run through nine printed editions; the first, issued in 16 volumes from 1870 ...
'' and ''
Oosthoek''. Due to the cooperation with the publisher of the Larousse they could appeal to the extensive know-how of the French encyclopaedia and supplement it with the help from Dutch and Belgian experts.
The encyclopaedia contains 500,000
lemmas
Lemma may refer to:
Language and linguistics
* Lemma (morphology), the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word
* Lemma (psycholinguistics), a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered
Science and mathematics
* Lemma (botany), ...
, 1066 categories grouped in 20 disciplines, 8000 literary
quotation
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by ...
s, 52,000
illustrations, 1200
geographical
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
and
thematic map
A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter (theme) in a geographic area. This usually involves the use of map symbols to visualize selected properties of geographic features that are n ...
s and 40 000
citations
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of ...
. A full medical encyclopaedia is included, as well as the
Koenen-Endepols
dictionary. A separate
atlas
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Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geograp ...
is part of the series.
Only a single edition of the ''Grote Nederlandse Larousse'' appeared.
*''Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie''. Samenstellers: L. Nagels en L. Vandeschoor. 25 dln. A-Z 1972–79. Atlas, 1979. 2 supplementen 1980, 1983. 's-Gravenhage: Scheltens en Giltay (vanaf dl. 17: Hasselt: Heideland-Orbis / 's-Gravenhage: Scheltens en Giltay).
1971 non-fiction books
Dutch encyclopedias
20th-century encyclopedias
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