''Encyklopedia Powszechna'' (''Universal Encyclopedia'', ''Orgelbrand's Encyclopedia'') published by
Samuel Orgelbrand
Samuel Orgelbrand (1810 – 16 November 1868) was a Polish-Jewish printer (publisher), printer, bookseller, and publisher. He is best known as the initiator, organizer, and publisher of the ''Encyklopedia Powszechna'' (Universal Encyclopedia), or ...
in 1859–1868 was one of the first modern Polish encyclopedias.
History
This encyclopedia is often called the first modern Polish encyclopedia (that is also universal and multi-volume). The title of the first Polish encyclopedia is also claimed by older works, e.g. ''Inventores rerum'' by
Jan Protasowicz encyclopedia from 1608, ''Encyclopaedia Natvralis Entis'' by
Stanisław Stokowski from 1637 and the ''
Nowe Ateny'' from 1745.
''Universal Encyclopedia'' was published in
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
in
Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established w ...
- the Polish territory of the
Russian partition
The Russian Partition (), sometimes called Russian Poland, constituted the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that were annexed by the Russian Empire in the course of late-18th-century Partitions of Poland. The Russian ac ...
. Its content was censored by the official tsarist censorship.
[Collective work (1859)] Later resumes of the first edition of the years (1872-1876, 1877–1879, 1883–1884, 1898–1904) had a volume-reduced form. In 1984–1985, a reprint of the original version was published in Poland.
The creators of the publication's content were many representatives of the Polish nineteenth-century intelligentsia. In entry to the first volume published in 1859, a list of authors of the encyclopedia has been published. It contained the following names:
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Adam Adamowicz
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Jerzy Alexandrowicz
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Władysław Ludwik Anczyc
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Michał Baliński
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Jan Baranowski
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Sadok Barącz
Sadok Barącz (, , 29 April 1814 in Stanislau, now Ivano-Frankivsk – 2 April 1892 in Pidkamin, now Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast) was a Galician religious leader, historian, folklorist, archivist, an Armenians, Arm ...
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Adam Bartoszewicz
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Julian Bartoszewicz
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Władysław Bentkowski
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Feliks Berdau
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Leopold Berkiewicz
Leopold may refer to:
People
* Leopold (given name), including a list of people named Leopold or Léopold
* Leopold (surname)
Fictional characters
* Leopold (''The Simpsons''), Superintendent Chalmers' assistant on ''The Simpsons''
* Leopold B ...
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Cezary Biernacki
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Julian Bleszyński
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Kazimierz Bujnicki
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Ignacy Chodźko Ignacy is a Polish given name, equivalent of the name ''Ignatius''. Notable people with the name include:
* Ignacy Tadeusz Baranowski (1879–1917), Polish historian
* Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (1865–1925), Polish classical scholar and archaeologi ...
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Teofil Cichocki
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Wojciech Cybulski
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Wincenty Dawid
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Walenty Dutkiewicz
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Ewa Felińska
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Zenon Fisz
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Henryk Flatau
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Antoni Funkenstein
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Józef Grajnert Józef is a Polish variant of the masculine given name Joseph.
Art
* Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914), Polish painter
* Józef Gosławski (1908-1963), Polish sculptor
Clergy
* Józef Glemp (1929-2013), Polish cardinal
* Józef Kowalski (1 ...
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Jan Kanty Gregorowicz
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Leopold Hubert
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Kazimierz Jarochowski
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Jan Jasiński
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Ludwik Jenike
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Adam Jocher
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Karol Jurkiewicz
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Karol Kaczkowski
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Zygmunt Kaczkowski
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Kazimierz Kaszewski
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Adam Kirkor
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Oskar Kolberg
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Ludwik Kondratowicz
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Józef Korzeniowski
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the Eng ...
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Józef Kowalewski
Józef Kowalewski (; 9 January 1801 – 7 November 1878) was a Polish orientalist. He was the founder of the Philomatic Association.
In 1824, he was convicted by the Russian authorities for pro-independence Polish activity and exiled into Russi ...
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Rafał Krajewski
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician.
Born in Warsaw into a noble family, he spent much of his youth with his maternal grandparents in Romanów ...
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Kajetan Kraszewski
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Józef Kremer
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Jan Kulesza
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Marceli Langowski
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Aleksander Lesser
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Franciszek Henryk Lewestam
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Karol Lilpop
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A. Lipnicki
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Hieronim Labęcki
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Józef Łepkowski
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Franciszek Maciejowski
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Józef Majer
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Franciszek Maciejowski
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Antoni Marcinkowski
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Józef Maczyński
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Adam Mieczyński
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Feliks Jan Szczęsny Morawski
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Antoni Morzycki
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August Mosbach
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Ludwik Neugebauer
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Otto Leopold
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Jan Pankiewicz
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Jan Papłoński
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Piotr Perkowski
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Nikodem Pęczarski
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Ludwik Pietrusiński
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Szymon Pisulewski
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Jan Feliks Piwarski
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Aleksander Połujański
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Józef Procki
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Adam Prażmowski
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Wincenty Prokopowicz
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Wincenty Przyałgowski
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Stanisław Przystański
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Alfons Puchewicz
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Ksawery Rakowski
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Antoni Rogalewicz
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Leon Rogulski
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Kazimierz Rogiński
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Paweł Rzewuski
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Walerian Serwatowski
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Hipolit Skimborowicz
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Fryderyk Skobel
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Franciszek Maksymilian Sobieszczański
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Leon Sokołowski
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Henryk Suchecki
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Wiktor Szokalski
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Wacław Sztulc
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Michał Szymanowski
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Michał Bohusz Szyszko
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Władysław Taczanowski
Władysław Taczanowski (; 17 March 1819, in Jabłonna, Lublin Voivodeship – 17 January 1890, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and collector of natural history who explored the Russian Far East and northern Africa. He specialized mainly in orn ...
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Franciszek Wężyk
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Karol Widman
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Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki
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Ludwik Wolski
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Antoni Wrotnowski
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Wincenty Wrześniowski
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Józef Wyszyński
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Gustaw Zieliński
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Feliks Żochowski
Content
It counted a total of 28 volumes, each of which had almost 1000 pages:
* T.1 (A-Aos, 999 p.)
* T.2 (Ap-Bąk, 1088 p.)
* T.3 (B-Bol, 982 p.)
* T.4 (Bol-Cec, 984 p.)
* T.5 (C-Cul, 983 p.)
* T.6 (Cul-Den, 983 p.)
* T.7 (Den-Eck, 983 p.)
* T.8 (Eck-Flem, 983 p.)
* T.9 (Flem-Glin, 984 p.)
* T.10 (Glin-Guis, 983 p.)
* T.11 (Gui-Hof, 983 p.)
* T.12 (Hof-Jan, 983 p.)
* T.13 (Jan-Kapil, 983 p.)
* T.14 (Kapil-Kodeń, 983 p.)
* T.15 (Kodesz-Krasiń, 983 p.)
* T.16 (Krasiń-Libelt, 983 p.)
* T.17 (Libelt-Marek, 983 p.)
* T.18 (Maremmy-Mstów, 983 p.)
* T.19 (Msta-Optymaci, 983 p.)
* T.20 (Optymaci-Polk, 983 p.)
* T.21 (Polk-Realne szkoły i nauki, 983 p.)
* T.22 (Realne szkoły i nauki-Saski błękit, 983 p.)
* T.23 (Saski błękit-Starowiercy, 983 p.)
* T.24 (Starowiercy-Tarnogrodzka konfederacyja, 979 p.)
* T.25 (Tarnogrodzka konfederacyja-Uła, 983 p.)
* T.26 (Uła-Wikaryusz, 983 p.)
* T.27 (Wikaryusz-Wybrzeże, 983 p.)
* T.28 (Wybrzeże-Żyżmory, 1198 p.)
References
Bibliography
* {{cite book, last = Collective work, title = Encyklopedia Powszechna t.I, (A-Aos), publisher = Wydawnictwo Orgelbranda , location = Warsaw , year = 1859, language = Polish
1859 books
Encyclopedias in Polish
19th-century encyclopedias