Wiedza Powszechna

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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]

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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.
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