Short HistoryThe Encyclopaedia Publishing House was founded in October 1993, with the aim of publishing scientific and art works, taking the challenges and utilising its mobility as a small publishing house. We publish quality books from Hungarian authors, mainly in the field of human sciences. We are a non-profit enterprise, operating on grants from foundations, with a small headcount. In spite of being small in numbers, we have had significant projects. We launched the contemporary art journal Balkon in 1993-94, and started publishing a series of unique lexicons, with the first two parts in the series being the volumes 1-4 of the Latin dictionary of plant names, and the Epigraphic Dictionary of Pannonia. The biggest project of the publishing house so far was the three-volume, colour print Lexicon of Contemporary Hungarian Arts, prepared in co-operation with the Arts History Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) scheduled to be published in 1999 for the Frankfurt Book Fair. This book covers contemporary Hungarian applied and fine arts from 1945 to the present day, contains entries of all Hungarian artists and institutions outside Hungary, definition of terms, and descriptions of the characteristic art movements of the era. We have also launched a database and biographical series, with the first book being the Biographical and photo database of Hungarian authors from 1945 to 1997. We started an archaeological series during the fall of 1998, which will be a re-issue of the Dissertationes Pannonicae monography series, under the supervision of Jenő Fitz. The following organizations supported our publishing house in the period between 1993 and 1998:
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