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5 unusual facts about Encyclopedia Americana


Edmond Jaloux

Encyclopedia Americana (United States: Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1969 edition), pg 669

Encyclopedia Americana

The magazine's editor, Frederick Converse Beach, was editor-in-chief, and was said to be assisted by hundreds of eminent scholars and authorities who served as consulting editors or authors.

Gottfried Kinkel

The 1920 Encyclopedia Americana speculates that it was probably his love of his native country that brought him to Zürich.

Hermann and Dorothea

Ewald Eiserhardt, who reviews this work for Encyclopedia Americana, cites the serene flow of presentation, the masterly descriptions of landscape and home, the plastic vigor of the main figures, the balance of color, all as rendering Hermann and Dorothea a great work of literary art.

Socialist Education Movement

The campaign is described by Donald Klein in the Encyclopedia Americana 2007 (Grolier Online), as a "nearly complete failure."


Clifford Edmund Bosworth

His other contributions include nearly 200 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam and some 100 articles in the Encyclopædia Iranica, as well as articles for Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana.

Collier's Encyclopedia

A well-known comparison is that of Kenneth Kister, who gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of Collier's Encyclopedia with two comparable encyclopaedias, Encyclopædia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Americana.


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