Neue Deutsche Biographie
Encyclopedia
Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (literally
New German Biography) is a biographical
reference work
published in German
by the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin
. It is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
(ADB). Its first volume, alphabetically covering names from "Aachen" to "Behaim", was published in 1953. The currently most recent volume is the 24rd, covering names from "Schwarz" to "Stader", and was published in February 2010. So far, more than 21,000 biographies of individuals and families have been published. 3,520 further articles are expected to be added in four further volumes, with completion in 2017.
An NDB article usually contains genealogical
information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, parents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and birth names, academic degree
s, a curriculum vitae in whole sentences, a valuation of the subject's political, economic, social, scientific, technical or artistic achievements and a bibliography
. Only deceased persons with a close relation to the German language area are recorded. Each individual article is signed by its author. The average length of an article is ¾ of a page. An index cataloguing all articles and the full text of articles in the first 22 volumes, covering names from "Aachen" to "Schinkel", are freely available on-line.
Literal translation
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New German Biography) is a biographical
Biography
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
reference work
Reference work
A reference work is a compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of reference. That is, the information is intended to be quickly found when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end...
published in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
by the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject...
and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. It is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie is one of the most important and most comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language....
(ADB). Its first volume, alphabetically covering names from "Aachen" to "Behaim", was published in 1953. The currently most recent volume is the 24rd, covering names from "Schwarz" to "Stader", and was published in February 2010. So far, more than 21,000 biographies of individuals and families have been published. 3,520 further articles are expected to be added in four further volumes, with completion in 2017.
An NDB article usually contains genealogical
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, parents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and birth names, academic degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
s, a curriculum vitae in whole sentences, a valuation of the subject's political, economic, social, scientific, technical or artistic achievements and a bibliography
Bibliography
Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
. Only deceased persons with a close relation to the German language area are recorded. Each individual article is signed by its author. The average length of an article is ¾ of a page. An index cataloguing all articles and the full text of articles in the first 22 volumes, covering names from "Aachen" to "Schinkel", are freely available on-line.
Volumes
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16. Maly – Melanchthon. 1990 ISBN 3-428-00197-4 17. Melander – Moller. 1994 ISBN 3-428-00198-2 18. Moller – Nausea. 1997 ISBN 3-428-00199-0 19. Nauwach – Pagel. 1999 ISBN 3-428-00200-8 20. Pagenstecher – Püterich. 2001 ISBN 3-428-00201-6 21. Pütter – Rohlfs. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM. 2003 ISBN 3-428-11202-4 22. Rohmer – Schinkel. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, second edition. 2005 ISBN 3-428-11203-2 23. Schinzel - Schwarz. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, third edition. 2007 ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 24. Schwarz – Stader. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, fourth edition. 2010 ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0. |