- Encyclopedia Lituanica
Encyclopedia Lituanica (likely named after
Encyclopædia Britannica orEncyclopedia Americana ) [Antanas Klima, " [http://www.lituanus.org/1979/79_4_01.htm Two Lithuanian Encyclopedias completed] ", Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences 25(4), Winter 1979. ISSN 0024-5089. Accessed August 30, 2006.] is a six-volume (about 3600-page) English languageencyclopedia aboutLithuania and Lithuania-related topics. It was published between 1970 and 1978 inBoston, Massachusetts by Lithuanian emigrants who had escapedSoviet occupation at the end ofWorld War II . To this day, it remains the only such comprehensive work on Lithuania in the English language.The encyclopedia was published by the same emigrants who had published "Lietuvių enciklopedija", a 35-volume general encyclopedia in the
Lithuanian language , in 1953-1966. Later, two volumes of additions and supplements were added and the 37th and last volume was published in 1985. The undertaking was made extremely complicated by the fact that most sources and resources were behind theiron curtain in theSoviet Union . Some of the entries in Encyclopedia Lituanica come from this earlier work, which had about two-fifths of its content devoted to Lithuania-related topics. Thus a majority of entries were first written in Lithuanian and later translated into English. However, observers note a good quality of translations. [Valdis Zeps , "Review: Encyclopedia Lituanica", The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 1973), p. 115]The encyclopedia was published by Lithuanian Encyclopedia Press, founded and owned by
Juozas Kapočius . He was awarded theOrder of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas in 1995. [ [http://paulauskas.president.lt/ordinai/table_e.phtml Awarded Persons Database] , Orders, Medals and Other Awards, Administration of the Office of the President. Accessed August 30, 2006.] It was edited by Simas Sužiedėlis, and at the end of the last volume it lists 197 contributors; only a handful of them are non-Lithuanians.ee also
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Lithuanian encyclopedias References
External links
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