Famous Germans - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
After I moved to the UK in 1982 I sometimes saw these rows of books in people’s houses, the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had similar in Germany, but ours was called ‘der Brockhaus’. Photo credit: Florian Hirzinger The German encyclopedia is named after Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, who was born in Dortmund on the 4th May 1772 and died on the 20th August 1823 in Leipzig. His father wanted him to…







