NDB - Neue Deutsche Biographie


NEUE DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE	*NDB*

edited by

HISTORISCHE KOMMISSION

bei der

BAYERISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN



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International Conference

From Reference Work to Information System

Vom Nachschlagewerk zum Informationssystem

Wissenschaftliche Qualitätssicherung und Funktionalitätserweiterung

historisch-biographischer Lexika in elektronischen Medien

Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München

and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Historisches Kolleg and und der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Munich (Bavaria)

granted by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2010, 25./27. February

Further information Akademie Aktuell 04/2009, p. 47 and Jahresbericht der Historischen Kommission 2008, p. 48

Neue Deutsche Biographie & Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Cumulated Index

Welcome to the web-site of the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB / New German Biography)

The full text of all articles in the first 23 volumes, covering names from "Aachen" to "Schwarz" are also freely available on-line.

The NDB is a biographical dictionary published in German language by the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin. The NDB is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). The currently most recent volume is the 24^_th, covering names from "Schwarz" to "Stader" was published in february 2010. Since 1953 more than 21,000 biographies of families and deceased persons who have had a significant impact on developments in scholarship, arts, technology, medecine, economics, politics or social life have been published. Only persons and families with a close relation to the German language area are recorded. Each individual article is signed by its author.

All NDB articles usually contain biographical, genealogical and bibliographical information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, parents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and birth names, academic degrees, a curriculum vitae in whole sentences, a valuation of the subject's political, economic, social, scientific, technical or artistic achievements, sources and a bibliography. An index cataloguing all articles is freely available on-line.

References:

Sarah WENZEL, Europe in Bits & Bytes, in: Western European Studies Section (WESS), Newsletter, ed. by Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a divison of the American Library Association (ALA), Spring 2002, Vol. 25, no. 2, German Resources.