''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 en, Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph , caption = Rudolf in 1887 , spouse = , issue = Elisabeth Marie, Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Franz Joseph I of Austria , mother ...

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

. 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 Móric Jókay de Ásva (, known as ''Mór Jókai''; 18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai or Mauritius Jókai, was a Hungarian nobleman, novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. He was an active participant ...

. Only the German edition was financially successful. The Hungarian edition includes some anti-Semitic 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.The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures
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# 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''), 1896 # 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 The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. ...

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Wojciech Kossak Wojciech Horacy Kossak (31 December 1856 – 29 July 1942) was a noted Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossa ...

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