''Pax Leksikon'' is a
Norwegian political
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into article (publishing), articles or entries that are arranged Alp ...
published in six volumes by the Norwegian publishing house
Pax Forlag from 1978 to 1981.
Editors were
Hans Fredrik Dahl
Hans Fredrik Dahl (born 16 October 1939) is a Norwegian historian, journalist and media scholar, best known in the English-speaking world for his biography of Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborationist and Minister President for Norway during the ...
,
Jon Elster
Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France.
...
,
Irene Iversen,
Siri Nørve,
Tor Inge Romøren,
Rune Slagstad and
Mariken Vaa. More than 400 experts contributed to the encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia has been made available online.
List of volumes
This is a list of the six volumes of the encyclopedia ''Pax Leksikon'' ( for all volumes 1–6).
*Volume 1: A-B. Published 1978 ()
*Volume 2: C-G. Published 1979 ()
*Volume 3: H-Ks. Published 1979 ()
*Volume 4: Ku-N. Published 1980 ()
*Volume 5: O-Sn. Published 1980 ()
*Volume 6: So-Å. Published 1981 ()
References
External links
* Online version.
Norwegian encyclopedias
Pax Forlag books
1978 non-fiction books
20th-century encyclopedias
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