Brill's New Pauly: History of Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Dictionary

Before the arrival of the Internet, generations of scholars of antiquity were served by a major printed encyclopedia offering information on all aspects relating to the literature and history of the ancient world. The encyclopedia, known to scholars familiarly as the Pauly-Wissowa or the Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, comprised an impressive 83 volumes when it was finally completed in 1980. The work, which was begun in 1890 under the editorial control of Georg Wissowa was envisaged initially as a revision of an earlier, six-volume encyclopedia begun in 1839 by fellow German scholar, August Pauly. On Pauly's death in 1845,...