Révai Nagy Lexikona

The Great Lexicon of Révai (Hungarian "Révai nagy lexikona") 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

Révay Mór János starting from the large lexicon of Pallas, he 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

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