The Hungarian Catholic Lexicon () is a large-scale lexicon series in Hungarian, dealing mainly with religious topics.
History and content Regarding the history of the Lexicon, the editors note the following in the preface to the first volume:
The editors intended to emphasize topics related to the Hungarian church in particular. Under the editorship of István Diós and János Viczián, the Hungarian Lexicon was thus prepared independently of the Lexikon für Theologie and Kirche, and includes a range of items relating to local history, ethnography, botany, and music history.
The Lexicon, which was published in 15 volumes between 1993 and 2010 and comprises around 15,000 printed pages, was carried out under the auspices of the Szent István Társulat (St. Stephen Society), which has traditionally published ecclesiastical literature. The two-column text is decorated with many black and white and some color photographs and illustrations. In 2013, an additional volume (A–Zs) was published as the 16th, and then in 2014 the series was closed by an index volume (volume 17).
The most important of the topics covered by the encyclopedia are the followingː
biographies (popes, kings, bishops, writers, other personalities) events (Hungarian ecclesiastical and secular history, universal church history) places (countries, dioceses, Hungarian dioceses, parishes, pilgrimage sites, monastic houses) institutions (monastic orders, associations) concepts (philosophy, scripture, dogmatics, ecclesiastical law, liturgy, arts, natural sciences)
In addition to the printed edition, the Hungarian Catholic Lexicon has also been available in electronic form. András Rácz, a student of the Faculty of Information Technology of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, took part in the creation of the Internet version, under the supervision of Miklós Pásztor.
Order of volumes
+ Volume I A–Bor 1993 948 Volume II Bor–Éhe 1996 964 Volume III Éhi–Gar 1997 932 Volume IV Gas–Hom 1998 932 Volume V Homo–J 2000 978 Volume VI Kaán–Kiz 2001 970 Volume VII Klacs–Lond 2002 1040 Volume VIII Lone–Meszl 2003 1056 Volume IX Meszr–Olt 2004 1056 Volume X Oltal–Pneu 2005 1022 Volume XI Pob–Sep 2006 1020 Volume XII Seq–Szentl 2007 1018 Volume XIII Szentl–Titán 2008 1000 Volume XIV Titel–Veszk 2009 1008 Volume XV Veszp–Zs 2010 750 Volume XVI Pótkötet A–Zs 2013 1030 Volume XVII Indexkötet. Az I–XVI. kötet mutatója A–Zs 2014 1212
Sources
External links Digitized edition