''The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture'' or the ''Kronprinzenwerk'' ("Crown Prince's Work") is a 24-volume encyclopedia of regional studies, initiated in 1883 by

Crown Prince Rudolf Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro ...

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

. The encyclopedia describes countries, peoples, landscapes and regions of the Austro-Hungarian

Crown Land Crown land, also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown. It is the equivalent of an entailed estate and passes with the monarchy, being inseparable from it. Today, in Commonwealth realm ...

s. It was also published in a 21-volume Hungarian edition ("Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia írásban és képben"). The German edition was edited by the history and geography professor, Josef Weil von Weilen (1830-1889), while the Hungarian edition was edited by the novelist and dramatist

Mór Jókai Móricz Jókay of Ásva (18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), known as Mór Jókai, was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. Outside of Hungary, he was also known as Maurice Jókai or Maurus Jókai or Mauritius Jókai. He was a le ...

. Only the German edition was financially successful. The Hungarian edition includes some

anti-Semitic Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

remarks that are missing from the German edition. The volumes were issued from December 1885 through June 1902 in 398 installments, from the "" (Court and State Printers) and , a publisher and bookseller. They contain 587 contributions, totaling 12,596 pages with 4,529 illustrations. The articles were written by 432 contributors, including Crown Prince Rudolf himself.The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures
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# Vienna and Lower Austria, 1st section: Vienna (''Wien und Niederösterreich, 1. Abtheilung: Wien''), 1886 # Summary 1. section: Nature Historical Theil (''Übersichtsband, 1. Abtheilung: Naturgeschichtlicher Theil''), 1887 # Overview, 2nd section: Historical Theil (''Übersichtsband, 2. Abtheilung: Geschichtlicher Theil''), 1887 # Vienna and Lower Austria, 2nd section: Lower Austria (''Wien und Niederösterreich, 2. Abtheilung: Niederösterreich''), 1888 # Hungary, Part 1 (''Ungarn, Band 1''), 1888 # Upper Austria and Salzburg (''Oberösterreich und Salzburg''), 1889 # Styria (''Steiermark''), 1890 # Carinthia and Krain (''Kärnten und Krain''), 1891 # Hungary, Part 2 (''Ungarn, Band 2''), 1891 # The Littoral (Gorizia, Gradiska, Trieste and Istria) (''Das Küstenland (Görz, Gradiska, Triest und Istrien)'', 1891 # Dalmatia (''Dalmatien''), 1892 # Hungary, Part 3 (''Ungarn, Band 3''), 1893 # Vorarlberg and the Tyrol (''Tirol und Vorarlberg''), 1893 # Bohemia, Part 1 (''Böhmen, Band 1''), 1894 # Bohemia, Part 2 (''Böhmen, Band 2''), 1896 # Hungary, Part 4 (''Ungarn, Band 4''), 1896 # Moravia and Silesia (''Mähren und Schlesien''), 1897 # Hungary, Part 5, 1st section (''Ungarn, Band 5, 1. Abtheilung''), 1898 # Galicia (''Galicien''), 1898 # Bukovina (''Bukowina''), 1899 # Hungary, Part 5, 2nd section (''Ungarn, Band 5, 2. Abtheilung''), 1900 # Bosnia and Hercegovina (''Bosnien und Hercegowina''), 1901 # Hungary, Part 6 (''Ungarn, Band 6''), 1902 # Croatia and Slavonia (''Croatien und Slavonien''), 1902 The volume number corresponds to the list at the end of the 24th volume. Notably, Poland is not mentioned in the encyclopaedia because, at the time, the Imperial

partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partition (politics), partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th century. They ended the existence of the state, resulting in the eli ...

were considered final by the German authorities in the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (, ) was a German state that existed from 1701 to 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. It played a signif ...

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Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz (22 January 1861 – 29 April 1917) was a Polish realist painter of the late 19th century specializing in portraits, genre and historical painting. Ajdukiewicz, was born and raised in Galicia, settled in the imperial capital u ...

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