Pauly encyclopedias
The Pauly encyclopedias or the Pauly-Wissowa family of encyclopedias, are a set of related encyclopedias on Greco-Roman topics and scholarship. The first of these, Pauly's Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft in Alphabetischer Ordnung or Ur-Pauly, was begun by compiler August Pauly. Other encyclopedias in the set include Pauly–Wissowa, Little Pauly, and The New Pauly.Ur-Pauly
The first edition was the Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft in Alphabetischer Ordnung, , originally compiled by August Friedrich Pauly. As the basis for the subsequent PaulyWissowa edition, it is also known as the Ur-Pauly. The first volume was published in 1839 but Pauly died in 1845 before the last was completed. Christian Waltz and Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel completed the 6 volume first edition in 1852.
A second edition of the first volume of Pauly's encyclopedia was published by Teuffel in 1861. The revised second volume came out in 1866, with the rest of the work left incomplete.Pauly–Wissowa
began work on a new and more ambitious edition in 1890. Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, more commonly known as the Pauly–Wissowa, was planned for completion by 1900 but work again outlasted its initial editor. Continued under Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, the series was not completed until 1972, with supplements added until 1978 and the index in 1980. Each article was written by a recognized specialist in the relevant field, but unsurprisingly for a work spanning three generations, the underlying assumptions vary radically with the age of the article. Many early biographies were written by Elimar Klebs, Paul von Rohden, Friedrich Münzer, and Otto Seeck.Little Pauly
The size and price of Wissowa's edition being daunting, Konrat Ziegler put out an abridged Der Kleine Pauly edition of 5 volumes between 1964 and 1975. Ziegler was assisted by Walther Sontheimer and Hans Gärtner.New Pauly
Der Neue Pauly was published in 16 volumes from 1996 to 2003, including 12 volumes on antiquity edited primarily by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, 3 volumes on the classical tradition edited primarily by Manfred Landfester, and an index. The English translation was published as Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World in 22 volumes between 2002 and 2014. Supplements have been published regularly since 2004 in German and English translation. Among other numbering differences, there is one less supplement in the English edition than the German edition because in the German edition the index to the "Classical Tradition" was counted as a supplement.