Augustinus-Lexikon

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Augustinus-Lexikon
Country Germany
Language German, English, French
PublisherSchwabe AG for the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
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1986 to present
Media typePrint

The Augustinus-Lexikon is a trilingual scholarly encyclopedia under the editorship of Cornelius Petrus Mayer, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Robert Dodaro, and others [6] that has as its subject matter the life and works of St Augustine of Hippo. It is a project of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz [7] and is in the process of being published over a number of years by Schwabe AG, a publishing house in Basel the activities of which extend over five centuries. [8] Pope Benedict XVI was known to be among the admirers and users of this work. [2] [9]

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