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The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland project received official funding from the Federal Assembly in 1987. A Foundation Board created the organization in 1988 with dual aims to publish a multi-volume dictionary and an electronic database version.
Federal Councillor Philipp Etter launched personal initiatives in 1958 to create a successor to the failed DHBS. Hans Peter Tschudi pursued similar goals a few years later before two publishers took up the idea in the early 1980s.
The encyclopedia appears simultaneously in German, French, Italian, and Romansh editions. Red covers mark German volumes titled Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz while blue covers identify French versions called Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse.
The printed dictionary comprises 3,200 articles covering regional biographies, places, and events. An abbreviated version contains 3,100 articles in Romansh under the title Lexicon Istoric Retic.
The DHS Foundation completed its work on the 1st of January 2017 before passing operations to the ASSH. The site had 11,300 entries by 2002 in at least one language during its development phase.