Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon

The German colonial lexicon is a German-language lexicon for German colonial nature. It was completed in 1914 and the content is already set for the most part, but could not appear because of the First World War. It appeared in 1920 in three volumes in Leipzig. As editor of the former Governor of German East Africa was renamed Heinrich Schnee. A reprint of this work was published in 2006 by Verlag Fines Mundi in Saarbrücken.

It was a joint project of the University Library Frankfurt am Main, university computer center of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe- University of Frankfurt and the University of Applied Sciences Dresden ( FH), Department of Surveying / Cartography digitized such that the original was unchanged.

Bibliographic notice

  • Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German colonial lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920. 3 vols ( Online)

German colonial lexicon (1903 )

Under the same title was published in 1903 by Oskar Kausch the German colonial lexicon: general overview of the German colonial territories, alphabetical listing of the new geographic names (countries, nations, rivers, mountains, places ), indicating the governmental, military, customs - and mission stations, transport stations, trading posts and plantations, explanations of names and compilation of the most important colonial researchers; with an appendix: Colonial post and telegraph tariff; for traders, businessmen, transport officials and friends German colonial policy, Edit. Oskar Kausch. A reprint of the original edition of this work (Dresden, Kühtmann, 1903) was published in 2005 in the Melchior -Verlag, Wolfenbüttel, ISBN 3-939102 13- X ( Historical Library )

  • German colonial history
  • Dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Literature ( 20th century)
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