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PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)  , a false or invented name, particularly the fictitious name under which an author produces his See also:work in See also:order to conceal his identity . The same end is gained by publication without any name, i.e. anonymously (Gr. avwvuµos, without a name) . The See also:body of See also:works thus produced either without the author's name or under a fictitious name is known as See also:anonymous and pseudonymous literature, and many books have been published affording a See also:key to the identity of the various writers, forming an important See also:section of bibliography . Though Fredericus Geisler published a See also:short See also:treatise on the subject entitled Larva detracla, &c., in 1669, the See also:chief See also:early work was that of See also:Vincent Placcius (1642-1699) whose Theatrum anonymouum et pseudonymorum was published in 1708, edited by L . F . See also:Vischer with a See also:preface and See also:life by J . A . See also:Fabricius; supplements were published in 1711 and in 1740 . The next important work, only a fragment of the purposed See also:scheme, was that of Adrien See also:Baillet (q.v.), under the See also:title of Auteurs deguises sous See also:les noms strangers, &c . (169o) . See also:Antoine See also:Alexandre See also:Barbier (q.v.) published his See also:standard work Dictionnaire See also:des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes in 1806-1809 (2nd ed., 1822-1827) . This was followed by the Supercheries litteraires devoilees of J .

M . See also:

Querard (q.v.) . The third edition of Barbier's work, embodying Querard and much new See also:matter, was published in 1872-1879 . This was edited by P . Gustave See also:Brunet, who published a supplement in 1889 . Other works in See also:French are those of C . Jolliet, Les Pseudonymes du jour (1867 and 1884), and F . Drujon, Livres a clef (1888) . Of See also:German works in this See also:sphere of bibliography the See also:Index pseudonymorum, Worlerbuch der Pseudonymen of Emil Weller appeared in 1856, of which several supplements were published later . The most monumental of all works are the Deutsches Anonymen-Lexikon, 1501-1850, by M . Holzmann and H . Bohatta (1902-1907), supplement, 1851-1908 (1909), and the Deutsches Pseudonymen-Lexikon, by the same authors (1906) .

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Die Pseudonyme der neueren deutschen Litteratur (1899), and the supplementary See also:volume (1909), to Meyers's Konversations-Lexikon (6th ed.) . The chief See also:Italian work is the Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani, by G . Melzi (1848-1859), with supplement by G . Passano (1887) . The Dutch Vermomde en naamlooze schrijvers . . . der Nederl. en Vlaamschen letteren, by J . I. See also:van Doorninck (1883-1885), was a second edition of an earlier work . The See also:Academy of See also:Upsala is See also:publishing, under the editorship of L . Bygden, a See also:Swedish See also:dictionary Svenskt anonym och See also:pseudonym lexikon (1898), &c . See also:England was See also:late in entering the See also:field . The first work actually published was the Handbook of Fictitious Names, by R .

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Thomas (Olphar Hamst) (1868) . See also:Samuel See also:Halkett, and the successor to his compilations, See also:John See also:Laing, both died before their work was published; edited and revised by See also:Miss C . Laing it appeared in 1882-1888 in 4 vols. as the Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of See also:Great See also:Britain, by S . Halkett and J . Laing . This remains the standard work on the subject in See also:English . Other works are W . See also:Cushing, See also:Initials and Pseudonyms (See also:American and English from the beginning of the 18th See also:century); 2nd See also:series (1886, 1888), and Anonyms (189o) ; F . See also:Marchmont, A Concise Handbook of Literature issued under Pseudonyms or Initials (1896); see also especially W . P . See also:Courtney, The Secrets of our See also:National Literature (1908), the first See also:chapter of which contains a See also:sketch of the See also:history of the subject, to which the above See also:account is mainly due . The anonymous and pseudonymous Latin literature of the See also:middle ages has been treated in See also:modern times by A .

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Franklin, Dictionnaire des noms, latins 1100—7530 (1875), and A . G . Little, Initia operum latinorum saec . 13-15 (1904) . PSEUDO-See also:PERIPTERAL (Gr. llieuii7s, false, vrepi, See also:round, irrepbv, a wing), a See also:term in See also:architecture given to a See also:temple in which the columns surrounding the naos have had walls built between them, so that they become engaged columns, as in the great temple at See also:Agrigentum . In See also:Roman temples, in order to increase the See also:size of the See also:cella, the columns on either See also:side and at the See also:rear became engaged columns, the See also:portico only having isolated columns .

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