The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie is a German language encyclopedia which until 2009 was published by the F.A. Brockhaus printing house.
The first edition originated as Conversations – Lexicon published in Leipzig between 1796–1808 by Lobel and Franke. The Lexicon was renamed Der Große Brockhaus in 1928 and Brockhaus Enzyklopädie from 1966, the current 21st thirty-volume edition contains about 300,000 entries on about 24,000 pages, with about 40,000 maps, graphics and tables. It is the largest German-language printed encyclopedia in the 21st century.
