User:Rhododendrites/lists/encyclopedists

Abraham Rees (talk) - Rees's Cyclopaedia
Adam Bromberg (talk) - Wielka Encyclopedia (Polish)
André le Breton (talk) - Encyclopedie publisher
Andrew Bell (engraver) (talk) - Encyclopaedia Britannica co-founder
Andrew Findlater (talk) - edited Chambers's Encyclopaedia
Archibald Constable (talk)
Arthur Mee (talk) - The Children's Encyclopaedia
Arthur Twining Hadley (talk)
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (talk)
Avicenna (talk) - Persian, 980-1037, The Book of Healing
Baron d'Holbach (talk)
Benedykt Chmielowski (talk) - Polish, Nowe Ateny mid 18th century
Benjamin of Tudela (talk)
Bruno Meissner (talk) - German assyriologist who made a couple specialist encycs
Charles Maclaren (talk)
Christopher Hibbert (talk)
Colin Macfarquhar (talk)
David Blair (encyclopedist) (talk)
David Brewster (talk)
David Patrick (writer) (talk) - edited Chambers's Encyclopaedia after Andrew Findlater
Denis Diderot (talk)
Dimitrie Alexandresco (talk)
Donald Mackenzie Wallace (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (talk)
Ephraim Chambers (talk)
Euhemerus (talk) - I think I've seen his Sacred History as an unusual encyclopedic text
Francesc Eiximenis (talk)
François Quesnay (talk)
Funk & Wagnalls (talk)
Gaetano De Sanctis (talk)
George Gleig (talk)
Gervase of Tilbury (talk)
Grolier (talk)
Herrad of Landsberg (talk)
Hugh Chisholm (talk)
Ichtiar Baru van Hoeve (talk)
Institute of Encyclopaedic Research (talk) - Ukranian state-supported acaemic research and publishing org
Isaac Broydé (talk)
Isidore of Seville (talk)
James Browne (writer) (talk)
James Tytler (talk)
János Apáczai Csere (talk)
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle (talk)
Jean-François Marmontel (talk)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (talk)
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (talk)
Jeremiah Joyce (talk) - The British Encyclopaedia (~1800)
Johann Heinrich Alsted (talk)
John Alexander Hammerton (talk)
John L. Heilbron (talk)
John Mills (encyclopedist) (talk)
Jorge Cauz (talk)
Julius Eisenstein (talk)
Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely (talk)
Lawrence Beyerlinck (talk)
Louis de Jaucourt (talk) - the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopedie
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (talk) - contributor to Encyclopedie
Macvey Napier (talk) - editor of Britannica
Marcus Terentius Varro (talk)
Martianus Capella (talk)
Martijn Theodoor Houtsma (talk) - Encyclopaedia of Islam - 1851-1943 - Dutch
Montesquieu (talk)
Olinthus Gregory (talk) - 1774-1841, Pantologia, English mathematician
Paul Otlet (talk)
Periyasaamy Thooran (talk) - Tamil Encyclopedia
Pierre Larousse (talk) - 1817-1875, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siecle (among others)
Pliny the Elder (talk)
Robert Burton (scholar) (talk)
Robert Cawdrey (talk) - 1538-1604, Table Alphabeticall
Samuel Orgelbrand (talk) - 1810-1868, prominent Polish printer, Universal Encyclopedia
Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Centre (talk) - previously the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute - Lithuanian publishing house, supported by the Lithuanian Republic's Ministry of Education and Science, established 1997 as a reorganization of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishers (founded 1992 via merger of Mokslas Publishing with State Encyclopaedia Publishers) - principle goal to complete 20-volume Universal Lithuanian Encyclopaedia
Seneca the Younger (talk) - Naturales questiones (1st century)
Sextus Pompeius Festus (talk)
Silvio D'Amico (talk)
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (talk)
Terje Bratberg (talk) - Trondheim byleksikon, Norwegian, b. 1955
Thomas Browne (talk) - Pseudoxia Epidemica, 1605-1682
Thomas Dobson (printer) (talk) - 1751-1823 - printer, published Britannica in America (also first to publish Hebrew Bible in America)
Thomas Stewart Traill (talk) - 1781-1862 - edited 8th edition of Britannica
Verrius Flaccus (talk) - 55 BCE- 20 CE - Roman grammarian, wrote Rerum memoria dignarum libri, much used by Pliny the Elder
Vincenzo Coronelli (talk) - 1650-1718 - Franciscan monk, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher - known for atlases and globes. wrote Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana and the atlas Atlante Veneto
William Nicholson (chemist) (talk) - edited The British Encyclopaedia
William Robertson Smith (talk) - an editor of Britannica, contributor to Encyclopaedia Biblica
William Smellie (encyclopedist) (talk) - editor of the first edition of Britannica

Éditions Larousse (talk) - founded by Pierre Larousse, best known for Petit Larousse
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (talk) - contributor to Encyclopedie

Specialist encyclopedias

Albertus Seba (talk) - Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri, a thesaurus of the natural world (specimens, etc.). Dutch.