Print Edition
The encyclopedia is being edited simultaneously in three national languages of Switzerland: German (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz – HLS), French (Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse – DHS) and Italian (Dizionario Storico della Svizzera – DSS). The first of 13 volumes was published in 2002. An additional volume per year is planned. Two volumes with a selection of articles will be published in Romansh (Lexicon Istoric Retic – LIR).
The 40,000 headings are grouped in:
- Biographies
- Articles on families
- Articles on places (municipalities, cantons, other nation states, fortresses, signories, abbeys, archeological sites)
- Subject articles (historical phenomena and terms, institutions, events)
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