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Johann Samuel Ersch

German bibliographer
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Johann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer who began work in 1813 on the monumental, uncompleted German encyclopedia titled Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts). This encyclopedia is known for containing the longest known article, which was about Greece and spanned 3,668 pages. The encyclopedia, of which 167 volumes were published between 1818 and 1889, featured signed articles written by leading German scholars of the 19th century.1

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  1. Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste
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  3. German literature - Rationalism

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