A Repository of Modern Knowledge

A Repository of Modern Knowledge (Hungarian: Ujabb kori ismeretek tára), subtitled an Encyclopedia of Sciences and Political Social Life (Hungarian: Tudományok és politikai társas élet encyclopædiája) is a Hungarian lexicon published in the middle of the 19th century.

History

The large-scale work, published by Gusztáv Heckenast in Pest between 1850 and 1855, processed the various branches of knowledge in six volumes. There is still no facsimile edition of the work, but the volumes are available in electronic form free of charge from Google Books, cf. below.

Order of volumes

Volume Number	Volume title	Year of publication	Number of pages	Electronic Access
Volume I	Aargau – Brockhaus	1850	684	[1]
Volume II	Brodzinszky – Ehrenfels	1850	666	[2]
Volume III	Eichendorff – Girardin	1851	666	[3]
Volume IV	Girod de l'Ain – Kazan	1852	672	[4]
Volume V	Kazinczy – Pauperismus	1853	664	[5]
Volume VI	Paxton – Zürich	1855	627	[6]

Sources

• Petrik Géza: Magyarország bibliographiája 1712–1860 (I–IV.), Budapest, 1888–1892, [7]