The ' ("Encyclopedia", lit. "knowledge word-book", "knowledge dictionary"), published in 11 volumes from 1909 to 1922, was the first
Finnish language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedi ...
encyclopedia. It was published by ''Tietosanakirja-Osakeyhtiö'', a joint effort between
Otava and
WSOY. The name of the series was adopted into the Finnish language to mean all encyclopedias, so to differentiate, the series became colloquially known as ''Iso musta tietosanakirja'' ("the Big Black Encyclopedia").
It was followed by the abridged ', "Small Encyclopedia", published in 4 volumes, 1925–1928.
External links
''Tietosanakirja''at
Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg ( sv, Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded ...
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Finnish-language encyclopedias
Finnish non-fiction books
1909 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias
Finnish encyclopedias
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