Famous Germans – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
After I moved to the UK in 1982 I sometimes saw these rows of books in people’s houses, the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had similar in Germany, but ours was called ‘der Brockhaus’. Photo credit: Florian Hirzinger The German encyclopedia is named after Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, who was born in Dortmund on the 4th May 1772 … Read more