Damen Conversations Lexikon
The Damen Conversations Lexikon is a 10-volume "Konversationslexikon" (; a type of dictionary, with encyclopedic explanations) from the 19th century, which at the time of publication was aimed primarily at German women of the bourgeoisie who were interested in education. History. At the beginning of the 1830s, the German book market offered around 50 encyclopaedic works that dealt with a wide range of special subjects and were aimed at different target groups. For example, there was the Große Conversations-Lexikon by Joseph Meyer, which was aimed at the educated classes and was distributed in individual volumes. The  writer Carl Herloßsohn, who came from a poor background, relied on a similar concept by starting to publish the "Damen Conversations Lexikon" in 1834. In doing so, he counted on the interest of women of the bourgeoisie who were hungry for education. Each volume consisted of four issues. In 1838, the tenth volume was completed. The contributors included Karoline von Woltmann, who, for example, wrote an article on "Marriage". Contributions from the field of music are said to have come from Robert Schumann in the first two volumes. The side pages of the title pages to the individual volumes were  decorated with steel engravings of famous women, which were by Moritz Retzsch. In the preface to the first volume it says: A numerized appeared (in new typesetting and facsimile) in the Digital Library series and was made available free of charge on the Zeno.org portal. This reproduces the full text of the printed edition unchanged with a word-for-word page concordance. In 1856, the work "Neuestes Damen-Conversations-Lexikon: ein Inbegriff des Gesammtwissens für die Frauenwelt" appeared, which was also printed in Leipzig and aimed at the same target group. Volumes. Published in association with women scholars and writers