Concept
Winkler Prins
Overview
The Winkler Prins is a Dutch-language encyclopedia, founded by the Dutch poet and clergyman Anthony Winkler Prins (1817–1908) and published by Elsevier. It has run through nine printed editions; the first, issued in 16 volumes from 1870 to 1882, and the last (the final in book form), numbering 26 volumes, from 1990 to 1993. Winkler Prins has been the most distinguished printed encyclopedia in the Dutch language. Publisher Elsevier collaborated with the Microsoft Corporation to put the 1993 version plus any new additions onto CD-ROM in 1997 as the Dutch-language version of Encarta.
Since 2020, Winkler Prins online has two subscription-based editions: Junior Winkler Prins online (for primary education from age 6+; c. 2,700 entries as of 2022), and Studie Winkler Prins online (for primary and secondary education from age 10+; c. 11,500 entries as of 2022).
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A knowledge of their several languages would be the most certain evidence of their derivation which could be produced. In fact, it is the best proof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred to. How many ages have elapsed since the English, the Dutch, the Germans, the Swiss, the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have separated from their common stock? Yet how many more must elapse before the proofs of their…
Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8
Close in meaning to Winkler Prins; the term itself is not named.
If it is thought that, great as the work is, it has taken an inordinate time to produce, comfort may be taken from the fate of comparable enterprises abroad. The great _Deutsches Wörterbuch_ started by the brothers Grimm in 1838 began to be printed as long ago as 1851, and thus had a start of over thirty years; but though it is only some two-thirds of the scale of the Oxford book, there still after sixty-seven years…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Close in meaning to Winkler Prins; the term itself is not named.
TUGENDBUCH (1649) 35; | | und so, meint der meister ferner, | werde ich auch bald gewaschen werden, | und mit hysop besprengt, der ich über | so viele das miserere gesungen BRENNER | ERZ. U. SCHR.
Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus
Close in meaning to Winkler Prins; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Dutch philosophy.