''Zbiór potrzebniejszych wiadomości'' (A Collection of Essential Information), a two-volume work by Ignacy Krasicki published 1781–83, was one of the first Polish encyclopedias.

History

Krasicki's Polish encyclopedia followed Jan Protasowicz's ''Inventores rerum'' (1608), Stanisław Stokowski's ''Encyclopaedia Natvralis Entis'' (1637), and

Benedykt Chmielowski Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski (1700–1763) was a Polish priest born presumably in Łuck. He wrote ''Nowe Ateny,'' the first Polish-language encyclopedia. It was first published in 1745-46; the second edition was supplemented between 1754 and 176 ...

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Nowe Ateny ''Nowe Ateny'' ''(New Athens)'' is the abbreviated title of the first Polish-language encyclopedia, authored by the 18th-century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745–1746 in Lwów (Lviv); the ...

'' (The New Athens, 1745). The Polish poet and writer Ignacy Krasicki was inspired to produce his encyclopedia by the work of the French '' Encyclopédistes'', including Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Voltaire, whom he had met while visiting France. Krasicki later expanded his ''Collection'', which eventually reached six volumes that were published in Warsaw after his death as part of a collected edition of Krasicki's works. The six-volume edition, published in 1828–33 by Adam Jakubowski, was printed by Natan Glücksberg.Rzadkowska (1955)

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* * 1781 non-fiction books Polish encyclopedias 18th-century encyclopedias Book series introduced in 1781 Works by Ignacy Krasicki {{encyclopedia-stub