Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
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Native name | Wydawnictwo Naukowe |
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| Founded | 1951 |
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN(Polish Scientific Publishers PWN;until 1991Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe-National Scientific Publishers PWN,PWN) is a Polishbook publisher,founded in 1951, when it split from theWydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne.[1]
Adam Bromberg,who was the enterprise's director between 1953 and 1965, made it into communist Poland's largest publishing house.[2] The printing house is best known as a publisher ofencyclopedias,dictionaries and university handbooks. It is the leading Polish provider of scientific, educational and professional literature as well as works of reference. It authored theWielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN,by then the largest Polish encyclopedia, as well as its successor, theWielka Encyklopedia PWN,which was published between 2001 and 2005. There is also an online PWN encyclopedia –Internetowa encyklopedia PWN.[3]
Initially state-owned, since 1991 it has been a private company. The company is a member ofInternational Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers(STM).
References[edit]
- ^"Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy".encyklopedia.pwn.pl(in Polish).Retrieved2019-12-04.
- ^Mariusz Cieślik, 2000. Memorbuch, Grynberg, Henryk.Gazeta Wyborcza22. 28 Sept
- ^"PWN Knowledge Portal".Retrieved19 November2013.
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