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German biographical reference work

Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB; literallyNew German Biography) is a biographicalreference work. It is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 27 volumes published thus far cover more than 23,000 individuals and families who lived in the German language area (Sprachraum).

NDB is published in German by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin. The index and full-text articles of the first 26 volumes are freely available online via the website German Biography (Deutsche Biographie) and the Biographical Portal.

Scope

NDB is a comprehensive reference work, similar to Dictionary of National Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, American National Biography, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Dictionary of Australian Biography, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Diccionario Biográfico Español, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, and Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL) (Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815–1950).

Its first volume, alphabetically covering names from "Aachen" to "Behaim", was published in 1953. As of 2016, the most recent volume is the 27th, covering names from "Vockerodt" to "Wettiner", which was published in February 2020. So far, more than 23,000 biographies of individuals and families, who lived in the German language area, have been published. Some 600 further articles will be added in one further volume, with completion expected in 2024.

An NDB article usually contains genealogical information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, tomb, parents, grandparents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and birth names, academic degrees, a curriculum vitae in whole sentences, a valuation of the

March 2024

The German Biography cooperates with the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar and integrates the people in the research database so:fie into the common index. It opens access to the holdings and collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

February 2024

The full text of the articles in Volume 27 of the New German Biography is available online.

March 2022

As part of the project “Knowledge Aggregator Middle Ages. Structuring, standardization and deployment of research data from factual and written sources of the Middle Ages and the early modern period” (WIAG) were the monasteries mentioned in the texts of the NDB and ADB found automatically with local grammars and aligned with the Monastery database and hence provided with standardized references. Approximately 5,000 references were made in almost 3,000 lexical entries of Deutsche Biographie.

February 2020

In February 2020 Duncker & Humblot published the 27th volume of the “Neue Deutsche Biographie” (Vockerodt - Wettiner). Hans-Christof Kraus acted as editor on behalf of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

In addition, more than 700 individual articles written by more than 500 authors have been put online. They were originally published in print in the preceding 26th volume edited by Maximilian Lanzinner und Hans-Christof Kraus in 2016 (Tecklenburg - Vocke).

Over One Million Users in 2016

In 2016, the Deutsche Biographie has been made available to the German-speaking world as a historical-biographical information system, enabling scholars to conduct scientific research. Offering certified facts, the data system contains at its core approximately 49.000 articles as published in the encyclopedias Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; General German Biography) and Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB; New German Biography; vol. 1-25, A to Tecklenborg).

The current state of expansion, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Scientif

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The Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) gives concise, thoroughly prepared biographies of deceased persons who have had a significant impact on developments in politics, economics, social life, scholarship, technology or the arts. Since many decades the NDB, with its original articles by notable authors, has been regarded as the authoritative biographical dictionary for all regions in which German is spoken and German culture is prevalent.

The NDB covers the period from the early middle ages down to the present and is arranged alphabetically. Since 1953 twentyseven volumes were published, containing more than 23'000 biographies of individuals and families covering the alphabet from Aachen to Wettiner. The articles include detailed information on genealogy, selective lists of works by the subjects themselves and of secondary literature, and references to portraits. There are also full indexes. The entire work is to be completed by the year 2023 in a further volume with among 700 articles. Volume 27, reaching as far as "Wettiner", was published in February 2020.

The first German national biography, the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), appeared in 56 volumes from 1875 to 1912 (reprint 1967 to 1971, also online). This was published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It is widely used even today. The NDB follows the tradition of the ADB, but is an independent work with original contributions based on the latest research. In comparison with the ADB the selection of articles is more rigorous, the presentation more concise, and the articles more clearly structured with a genealogical introduction and separate lists of works and secondary sources. Articles on families make it possible to give, within a broader context, at least a brief sketch of people not dealt with in articles of their own. The inde

German biographical reference work

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; German: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.

It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Leipzig by Duncker & Humblot. The ADB contains biographies of about 26,500 people who died before 1900 and lived in the German language Sprachraum of their time, including people from the Netherlands before 1648.

Its successor, the Neue Deutsche Biographie, was started in 1953 and is planned to be finished in 2023. The index and full-text articles of ADB and NDB are freely available online via the website German Biography (Deutsche Biographie).

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