In the original edition of the HRG, the first issue was published in 1964. It reached the entry 'Notzucht' in the twenty-first issue; which came out twenty-two years later, in 1982. When the first edition reached that entry, the work in progress was already covering 5195 columns. The new edition kicked off with its first issue in 2004. Twelve years later, in 2016, it had reached the same entry in its twenty-fourth issue. By the end of that last issue, the work in progress of the new edition had covered 6047 columns. How much more hard-working and efficient the new generation of legal historians has become!