''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (''NDB'';

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. It is the successor to the ''

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'' (ADB, Universal German Biography). The 26 volumes published thus far cover more than 22,500 individuals and families who lived in the German language area. NDB is published in German by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and printed by

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. The index and full-text articles of the first 25 volumes are freely available online via the website ''German Biography'' (''

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Scope

NDB is a comprehensive reference work, similar to ''

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'', 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 26th, covering names from "Tecklenburg" to "Vocke", which was published in October 2016. So far, more than 22,500 biographies of individuals and families, who lived in the German language area (

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), have been published. Some 1,600 further articles will be added in two further volumes, with completion expected in 2021. An NDB article usually contains

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information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, tomb, parents, grandparents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and

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and references to portraits. Only deceased persons with a close relation to the German language area are recorded. Each article is signed by its author.

Access

An index cataloguing all articles and the full text of articles in the first 26 volumes, covering names from "Aachen" to "Vocke", is freely available online. The index is also part of the Biographie-Portal (

). This cooperative project of the

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(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) the Foundation

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also makes available data of ''

'' (ADB), '' Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950'' (ÖBL) (Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815–1950), '' Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz / Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse / Dizionario Storico della Svizzera'' (HLS / DHS / DSS), ',

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(RPPB), ''

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'' (Saxon Biography), and ''

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'' (OeML).

Volumes

Aachen – Behaim
1953, reprint 1971

1955, reprint 1971

1957, reprint 1971

1959, reprint 1971

1961, reprint 1971

1964, reprint 1971

1966

1969

1972

1974

1977

1980

1982

1985

1987

1990

1994

1997

1999
Pagenstecher – Püterich
2001
Pütter – Rohlfs
Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM. 2003
Rohmer – Schinkel
Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, second edition. 2005
Schinzel - Schwarz
Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, third edition. 2007
Schwarz – Stader
Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, fourth edition. 2010

2013 #Tecklenburg - Vocke. 2016 #Vockerodt - Wettiner. 2020

Publication details

* ''Neue deutsche Biographie'' / herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, since 1953. .

References

* Reinert, Matthias, Schrott, Maximilian, Ebneth, Bernhard, Rehbein, Malte, Team Deutsche Biographie et al.
From Biographies to Data Curation: The Making of www.deutsche-biographie.de
in: BD2015. Biographical Data in a Digital World. Proceedings of the First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 9, 2015, ed. by. Serge ter Braake, Antske Fokkens, Ronald Sluijter, Thierry Declerck, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-1399. pp. 13–19.

External links

German Biography
(Deutsche Biographie)—complete full-text articles, index and further information
Biographical Portal
(Biographie-Portal)—complete index

Neue Deutsche Biographie
(Duncker & Humblot)

* ttp://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=startseite&l=en Munich Digitisation Centre, Digital Library department of the Bavarian State Library {{Authority control 1953 non-fiction books German biographical dictionaries Online person databases

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