NEUE DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE | NDB |
Cumulated
Index to the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) and the Allgemeine
Deutsche
Biographie (ADB)
The NDB
(25 volumes, since 1953) and its predecessor ADB
(56 volumes, 1875-1912, reprint 1967-1971) are one of the most
important
biographical dictionaries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They are
used nationally and internationally by all historical sciences. A broad
range of ca. 150,000 personal names
is registered together with further
biographical information and names of authors in
the NDB and in
the ADB. The project under patronage of Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) and Historische
Kommission
(Historical Commission) bei der Bayerischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and
Humanities,
Munich) created a complete
electronic index. This allows not only more comfortable and faster
access to the persons registered, but also improving the options for
indexing
and searching in the electronic medium. In the course of editing the
names,
information like standardized and hierarchical job titles etc. is
added.
This makes it possible to undertake more intensive and complex research
concerning social history, e.g. in the area of research into elites,
the
nobility and bourgeoisie (professions in certain periods, career
structures,
network of social relationships, marriage circles). The database is
available
via the internet by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and also as CD-ROM
by Duncker
& Humblot.
Return to Historical Committee
Created: 28. 5. 2002
Renewed: 11. 5. 2012
Copyright (C) 1997-2012 Dr.
Bernhard Ebneth (Neue Deutsche Biographie, Historische Kommission
bei der Bayerischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften, Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11, D - 80539 München).