Georg Wissowa is remembered today for re-edition of
Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, an
encyclopedia of classical studies initially started by
August Friedrich Pauly (1796–1845) in 1837. Around 1890, Wissowa began the new edition, an ambitious project that he anticipated would take ten years to finish. However, it wouldn't be until the 1970s that the last of its 83 volumes was published. He was the author of a significant work on
ancient Roman religion, titled
Religion und Kultus der Römer (1902), which appeared also in a second revised edition (1912), a book in which he explored the development of Roman religion, and in the process, provided a comprehensive description of its deities and religious practices. Wissowa also published a revision of
Ludwig Friedländer's moral history of Rome called
Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms, worked on
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's encyclopedia of
Greek and
Roman mythology,
Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie" and edited the second edition of
Joachim Marquardt's "
Römische Staatsverwaltung, vol. III. (1885). == References ==