Wiedza Powszechna (literally "Common Knowledge") is a publishing house in Poland.[1]

It originated in 1946 in Post World War II Poland as a subdivision of the Czytelnik publishing house, initiated by Stanisław Tazbir.[2]

In 1952, with the major rearrangement of the state, which officially became the Polish People's Republic, the government created a separate State Publishing House known as the Wiedza Powszechna, whose full name was Państwowe Wydawnictwo: Wiedza Powszechna (English, "State Publishing House of Common Knowledge") or the Wiedza Powszechna: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Popularno-Naukowe (English, "State-Owned Popular Science Publishing House"). It became a major publisher specializing in dictionaries (vocabularies, encyclopedic dictionaries, etc., language textbooks, phrase books, etc., both for Polish and foreign languages, as well as popular science books in various areas.[2][3]

In 2007 it was privatized into a sp. z o.o. (Polish equivalent of limited liability company,[2] which went bankrupt in 2011 [4]

In 2012 it was reestablished in Warsaw[5] as Wydawnictwo Wiedza Powszechna (Wiedza Powszechna Publishing House), specializing in foreign language dictionaries and textbooks.[2][6]

Book series

  • Biblioteczka dla Kazdego (English, "Bookcase for Everyone")[7]
  • Biblioteczka Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechne (English, "Library of the Universal Knowledge Society")
  • Biblioteczka Wiedzy Historycznej (English, "Library of Historical Knowledge")[8]
  • Biblioteka - Kraje, Ludzie, Obyczaje (English, "Library (of) Countries, People, Customs")
  • Biblioteka Przygod i Podrozy (English, "Library of Adventures and Travel")
  • De la Langue à la Civilisation Française (English, "From French Language to Civilization")
  • Kieszonkowa Seria Historyczna (English, "Pocket Historical Series")[9]
  • Klio w Niemczech (English, "Clio in Germany")[10]
  • Konfrontacje Historyczne (English, "Historical Confrontations")[11]
  • Ludy Swiata (English, "The Peoples of the World")
  • Malarze Polscy (English,"Polish Painters")
  • Mysli i Ludzie (English, "Thoughts and People")[12]
  • Mysli Srebrne i Zlote (English, "Silver and Gold Thoughts")[13]
  • Omega: Biblioteka Wiedzy Wspolczesnej (English, "Omega: Library of Contemporary Knowledge"); also known as: Biblioteka Wiedzy Wspolczesnej (English, "Library of Contemporary Knowledge")[14]
  • Przyroda Polska (English, "Nature Poland")
  • Profile (English, "Profile series")
  • Sygnaly (English, "Signals series")
  • W Szeroki Swiat (English, "In the Wide World")
  • Wydawnictwa Popularno-Encyklopedyczne (English, "Popular Encyclopedia Publications")
  • Zlota Seria Literatury Popularnonaukowej (English, "Golden Series of Popular Science Literature")[15]

References

  1. ↑ Official website
  2. 1 2 3 4 O Wydawnictwie (About Wiedza Powszechna publisher)
  3. ↑ Adam Bromberg, Ruch wydawniczy w Polsce Ludowej w latach 1944-1964, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1966, p. 54.
  4. ↑ "Wydawnictwo "Wiedza Powszechna" Sp. z o.o. w likwidacji w upadłości likwidacyjnej"
  5. ↑ Wiedza Powszechna, publishersglobal.com. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Państwowe Wydawnictwo Wiedza Powszechna, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  7. ↑ Biblioteczka dla kazdego, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  8. ↑ Biblioteczka Wiedzy Historycznej, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  9. ↑ Kieszonkowa Seria Historyczna, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  10. ↑ Klio w Niemczech - Translations from German , dhi.waw.pl. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  11. ↑ Konfrontacje historyczne, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  12. ↑ Mysli i Ludzie, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  13. ↑ Mysli srebrne i zlote, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  14. ↑ Biologiczna szkoła krakowska, nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  15. ↑ Złota Seria - Wiedza Powszechna, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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