Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

*Historical Dictionary of Switzerland*
Available in	German, French, Italian, Romansh
Owner	Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
URL	hls-dhs-dss.ch (de/fr/it); e-lir.ch (rm)
Registration	No
Launched	1998

The first three printed volumes, in German, French and Italian.

The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse; abbr. DHS) is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to present the history of Switzerland in the form of an encyclopaedia, published both on paper and on the internet, in three of the country's national languages: German, French and Italian. When it was completed at the end of 2014, the paper version contained around 36,000 articles divided into thirteen volumes. At the same time, a reduced edition of the dictionary has been published in Romansh under the title Lexicon istoric retic (LIR), and constitutes the first specialist dictionary in the Rhaeto-Romance, Switzerland.

The encyclopedia is published by a foundation under the patronage of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW/ASSH) and the Swiss Historical Society (SGG-SHH) and is financed by national research grants.