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The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland contains around 36,000 articles divided across thirteen volumes. Biographies account for 35% of the total, place articles around 30%, families and genealogy about 10%, and subject articles the remaining 25%.
The paper version of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland was completed at the end of 2014 with the publication of the thirteenth and final volume. The first volume had been published in 2002.
The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland is published in German (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz), French (Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse), and Italian (Dizionario Storico della Svizzera). A reduced edition of 3,200 articles is also available in Romansh as the Lexicon Istoric Retic.
The online edition of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland launched on the 4th of September 1998, when the first 8,000 articles were presented to the media in Berne. A prototype accessible only to Foundation staff had been available since August 1997.
The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland is financed through national research grants and is published under the patronage of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Swiss Historical Society. The Federal Council contributed a 500,000-franc subsidy to cover printing costs for the first ten volumes.
The Lexicon Istoric Retic is a reduced Romansh-language edition of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, comprising 3,200 articles on the history of the Grisons region and neighboring areas. Its first volume appeared at the end of 2010 and the second in 2012; it is considered the first specialized dictionary of Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland.