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German Language Humanities : Biographical Information
A guide to research materials in the areas of Germanic languages and literature
Biographical Information
- Biographical PortalThe Biographical Portal is a cooperative project of the Bavarian State Library, the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Foundation Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. A joint index provides access to more than 100,000 scholarly biographies of persons from all social backgrounds and nearly all periods of German, Austrian, and Swiss history
- Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikonalphabetically arranged, German-language biographical and bibliographical dictionary of prominent figures in the history and study of the Christian church in all its branches and denominations. Coverage of Christian writers and of people who played important roles in church history is especially strong. This on-line version includes revisions and updates not found in the printed volumes of the same title
- Deutsche BiographieIncludes the texts of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, finished in 1912, and the Neue Deutsche Biographie [NDB], started in 1953 and still underway. The site was reworked in 2014 to include all the NDB articles and also to be a portal to German biographical information from many other sites
- Deutsche biographische EnzyklopädieLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call Number: CT759 D48 1995
Non-Circulating - Deutscher Biographischer IndexLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call Number: CT1054 D48 1998
Non-Circulating
Use this index to find the location of biographies in the first two editions of the Deutsches Biographisches Archiv [directly below] - Deutsches biographisches Archiv. Eine Kumulation aus 254 der wichtigsten biographischen Nachschlagewerke für den deutschen Bereich bis zum Ausgang des neunzehnten JahrhundertsLocation: Memorial Library Reference Microfiche Collection (Room 262)
Call Number: Micro Fiche 3443
Staff can help with fiche readers - Deutsches biographisches Archiv. Neue Folge bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine Kumulation aus 284 der wichtigsten biographischen Nachschlagewerke für den deutschsprachigen BereichLocation: Memorial Library Reference Microfiche Collection (Room 262)
Call Number: Micro Fiche 5967
Staff can help with fiche readers - Deutsches biographisches Archiv 1960-1999Location: Memorial Library Reference Microfiche Collection (Room 262)
Call Number: Micro Fiche 6352
Note: Library has Microfiches 1-534 = Lief. 1-8 (A-Kytzler)
Staff can help with fiche readers - Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Biographisch-bibliographisches HandbuchEdited by Wilhelm Kosch
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call Number: Z2230 K86 1968
Non-Circulating - The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)This multi-volume set covers many categories of literary personages. Individual volumes include titles such as German Writers in the Age of Goethe: Sturm und Drang to Classicism, Nineteenth-Century German Writers, 1841-1900 and German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Wall Cases (Room 262)
Call Number: PS221 D52
Non-Circulating - Killy Literaturlexikon Autoren und Werke des deutschsprachigen KulturraumsOnline access to biographical and bibliographical information for German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present. Search by author's last name and then scroll to entry in volume. Articles in German
- Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL)Print version
The "Austrian Biographical Encyclopedia 1815-1950" (ÖBL) covers important Austrian personalities who lived between the years 1815 and 1950 from all modern states originally forming the Austrian-Hungarian empire
Memorial Library Reference Stacks, 2 South
Call Number: CT912 O8
Non-Circulating - Oxford Companion to German LiteratureMemorial Library Reference Stacks, 2 South
Call Number: PT41 G3 1997
Non-Circulating - Wer ist wer2000 edition. Location: Memorial Library Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call Number: DD85 W3
Non-Circulating - Wer ist werEarlier volumes.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: DD85 W3
Non-Circulating - Wer war wer in der DDR? Ein biographisches LexikonMemorial Library Reference Stacks, 2 South
CT1099.2 W47 2000
Non-Circulating - Xlibris: Deutsche Literatur, Autoren und literarische EpochenWeb site with summaries of German literary periods (Epochen) and a selection of important authors and their works (Autoren). Fully searchable and open for online discussion