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The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography)

The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography) is the central historical-biographical information system for the German-speaking world. As a joint service of the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo) (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) (Bavarian State Library) financed by several grants from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), it has been offering structured lexical expert knowledge with information more than 1,000,000 personalities (2022) of the German-speaking cultural area from the early Middle Ages to the present day free of charge since 2010.

The core content of the Deutsche Biographie is the retro-digitized full texts of around 50,000 articles from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB, 56 volumes, 1875-1912) and the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB, online 27 volumes so far, since 1953, “Aachen” to “Wettiner”). New articles from the NDB-online project have been added continuously since 2022 (see below). The articles reflect the political and cultural conditions and perspectives at the time they were written. Older NDB articles that are currently considered problematic or inadequate by the NDB editorial team will be successively written anew as part of the NDB-online project and also published in the German Biography. The older versions will remain accessible.

With the help of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (common authority file) of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library), the Deutsche Biographie links to further scientifically informative offers on the persons mentioned, to articles from other biographical encyclopedias, to source and literature references in large library catalogues as well as to objects, works and portraits or their references.

As part of the successive expansion of the Deutsche Biographie, holdings from important partner institutions were integrated into the Deutsche Biographie: the estate database of archival estates and personal papers and image archive of the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives) , the holdings of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar, the object database of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the image holdings in the specialist portals operated by the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Image Archive Photo Marburg) and broadcasting records from the Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv (German Broadcasting Archive). Searches were now also possible using a map-based, greatly expanded search function. The new features also included new forms of presentation based on computer linguistic analyses, e.g. the graphical representation of first-person networks.

The HiKo and the BSB continued to systematically expand the Deutsche Biographie. As a result, further central partner services were integrated by 2016:

• the persons in the Kalliope database of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library),
• the Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte (Annual Bibliography on German History) of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities),
• funeral sermons and Regesta Imperii of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz),
• the index of names in the edition Acta Pacis Westphalicae of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts),
• persons from LEO-BW, the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (State Archive of Baden-Württemberg),
• persons (photographers and archival estates) from the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) (Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library),
• the digital edition of the register books 1809-1930 of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts Munich), and
• the film portal of the Deutsches Filminstitut (German Film Institute).

The research tools were also developed in parallel: since 2016, it has been possible to search geographically by place of birth, death and work, as well as by date of birth and death.

Literature:

Hans Günter Hockerts, Zertifiziertes biographisches Wissen im Netz. Die "Deutsche Biographie" auf dem Weg zum zentralen historisch-biographischen Informationssystem für den deutschsprachigen Raum, in: Akademie Aktuell 04/2012, p. 34f .

Matthias Reinert, Maximilian Schrott, Bernhard Ebneth, Malte Rehbein, From Biographies to Data Curation - The Making of www.deutsche-biographie.de. Proceedings of the First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015, 13-19, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1399/paper3.pdf.

Sophia Stotz, Valentina Stuß, Matthias Reinert, Interpersonal Relations in Biographical Dictionaries. A Case Study. Proceedings of the First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015, 74-80, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1399/paper12.pdf.

Matthias Reinert, Bernhard Ebneth, Interfaces: Accessing Biographical Data and Metadata, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017, 1-8, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2119/paper1.pdf.

Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (New German Biography)

Since 1953, the Neue Deutsche Biographie, published by HiKo, has been providing information in concise, scientifically based encyclopaedia articles on deceased personalities whose achievements had a significant influence on political, economic, social, scientific, technical or artistic developments. For decades, the NDB has been regarded as the standard biographical encyclopaedia for the German-language and cultural area, with its original articles signed by experts.

The historical-biographical reference work NDB-online has been published by the HiKo since 2020 by Professor Dr. Peter Hoeres (Würzburg). In the tradition of the ADB and NDB, the lexicon continues these works digitally and, together with their approximately 50,000 articles, forms the basis of the Deutsche Biographie.

Objectives of NDB-online

NDB-online pays particular attention to women and men who have received little attention in older biographical encyclopaedias, such as leading representatives of sport, technology, management and administration as well as popular culture and the media. Each article in NDB-online is written as a named original contribution by proven experts and offers a balanced picture of the personality portrayed.

Articles on NDB-online

The articles in NDB-online follow a fixed system:

A header contains information on name variants and dates of life, the place of birth, death and burial, the confession of the respective personality and, if possible, a visual portrait of the person depicted.

A brief critical appraisal at the beginning of the article summarizes the historical significance and central achievements.

This is followed by a tabular presentation of the curriculum vitae and genealogy.

The biographical account deals with the life and work of the personality, outlines its continued influence and reception and concludes with an appreciative classification.

The articles are concluded by lists of honors and memberships, works, archival estates and other sources, secondary literature and portraits. Particular attention is paid to freely available online materials: the directories in NDB-online refer to digital works and editions, bibliographies, portraits and audiovisual media on the Internet.

The research tools offered in the Deutsche Biographie are fully applicable to the articles in NDB-online. All biographical personalities are recorded in the index of the Deutsche Biographie and linked to each other and to the entries in the ADB and NDB. Further online resources on the respective personalities can also be accessed via the index entry. In addition, persons and places mentioned in the articles are indexed by tagging and are thus linked to further information, also in the offers of other scientific and cultural institutions.

Changes, updates and additions to the published NDB-online articles will only be made in justified individual cases after review by the editorial team.

NDB-online editorial office

The editor is supported by a scientific advisory board. The editorial team, based in Munich, consists of six academic staff members who are responsible for various specialist departments and cross-sectional tasks. On the basis of biographical editorial documentation compiled over decades, they decide together with the editor and external specialist advisors on the inclusion of new personalities in NDB-online, search for authors for the respective articles and accompany the completion of the article through to publication.

Editorial team and departments NDB/NDB-online

Editor NDB: Prof. Dr. Hans-Christof Kraus (Passau)

Editor NDB-online: Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeres (Würzburg)

Acting project leader Deutsche Biographie: Prof. Dr. Michaela Geierhos (Universität der Bundeswehr, München)

Editorial assistant: Kaie Heilander, 089-23031-1152, e-mail: [email protected]

Departments:

Dr. Bernhard Ebneth, 089-23031-1155, e-mail: [email protected]

• Politics and military (early modern period)
• Archaeology
• Classical Studies
• Classical Philology
• Archive, library, information and documentation science
• Cross-sectional tasks:
• ◦ Genealogies
• ◦ Biography Portal / Germany

Dr. Stefan Jordan, 089-23031-1199, e-mail: [email protected]

• Politics and military (19th century)
• Modern philology and linguistics
• Theology and church
• Jewish religion

Dr. Maria Schimke, 089-23031-1200, e-mail: [email protected]

• Politics and military (since 1945)
• Economy and business
• Economics and social sciences
• Justice and jurisprudence
• Women's movement
• Printing and publishing (with an entrepreneurial focus)

Dr. Susan Splinter, 089-23031-1148, e-mail: [email protected]

• Natural sciences
• Medicine and pharmacy
• Mathematics and computer science
• Technical sciences
• Agricultural and forestry sciences
• Research travel and cartography

PD Dr. Werner Tschacher, 089-23031-1211, e-mail: [email protected]

• Politics and military (Middle Ages)
• Visual and performing arts
• Entertainment
• Music and theater
• Motion picture and

Dr. Thomas Vordermayer, 089-23031-1205, e-mail: [email protected]

• Politics and military (1918-1945)
• Journalism and communication studies
• Printing and publishing (focus on journalism)
• Ethnology and folklore
• Cross-sectional task: Media editing

Project coordination

• Professor Dr. Hans Günter Hockerts, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, editor of Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) until 2013,
• Professor Dr. Maximilian Lanzinner, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, editor of Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) 2013/2014,
• Professor Dr. Malte Rehbein (Passau), Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2014–2023.
• Dr. Markus Brantl, head of department at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)
• Dr. Bernhard Ebneth (NDB)

Project staff

Historical Commission

• Computational linguistic analyses: Sophia Stotz, Valentina Stuß
• Research assistants: Maximilian Schrott (2014-16), Ingo Frank (2015), Sebastian Gassner (2015)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Staff of the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum/Digitale Bibliothek der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek für die Digitalisierung, GND-Erschließung und technische Realisierung (Munich Digitization Centre/Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library for digitization, GND indexing and technical implementation).

The prototype for the output of data in RDF was realized in 2011 with the support of the AKSW research group at the University of Leipzig (Martin Brümmer, Thomas Riechert) as part of the EU project LOD2.

The project was implemented with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

All texts appearing on the Deutsche Biographie website as well as the programming of the search function and the text layout are protected by copyright. All protected elements may only be used with the express permission of the Historische Kommission or the specified copyright holders.

You may download the material displayed on the website for academic and private, non-commercial use, provided you comply with all copyright and other proprietary notices relating to the material. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, republish or use any content of the website, including text, images, audio or video files, for public or commercial purposes without the written permission of the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Exceptions to this apply since 1.9.2015 when “Deutsche Biographie” is mentioned under the following licenses:

• - Articles of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie CC-BY-NC-SA ,
• - Articles of the Neue Deutsche Biographie CC-BY-NC-ND ,
• - Register data CC0 .

If research results based on the data offered here are published, please send a link or a specimen copy to the editorial office of the NDB.

A link to this website, e.g. via the Beacon format, is expressly desired. The “Neue Deutsche Biographie” is also published in printed form and is available in bookshops. The publishing rights are held by the publisher Duncker und Humblot.

Max Mueller Bicentennial

Biographical portal was extended by personalities of bavarian and european history of music.

The European Biographical Portal enables access to more than 200,000 scholarly biographies of persons from all social backgrounds and covers most of the periods from German, Austrian, Swiss, Slovenian, and South-East European history.

The portal now also includes about 29,000 contributions from the " Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online " ( BMLO Bavarian Dictionary on Musicians Online), which is supervised by the Institute of Musicology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schick , LMU Center for Digital Humanities , Dr. Gerhard Schön , and Musikinstrumentenmuseum at Universität Leipzig , Prof. Dr. Josef Focht . 

Biographical Portal: http://www.biographie-portal.eu

Music in Switzerland in the past and present: The Dictionary of Music in Switzerland for the 21st century

The event has two parts: a scientific conference (23-24 November 2023) and a workshop (25 November 2023). The entire event is an initiative of the Dictionary of Music in Switzerland (DMS) , a board of trustees of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) .

University of Bern

Please send an email to Caiti Hauck : [email protected]

Conference program (PDF, 269KB)

Conference booklet (PDF, 519KB)

La Gazette Musicale 22 avril 2023

GND-Explorer a new tool for presenting and searching the Integrated German authority file | Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND)

Ágoston Zénó Bernád , Christine Gruber and Maximilian Kaiser (Edd.)

Aspekte, Bausteine, Normen und Standards für eine europäische Biographik. 

Unter Mitarbeit von Matthias Schloegl und Katalin Lejtovicz

BD-2017 Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017

Linz, austria, november 6-7, 2017 ., antske fokkens ,  serge ter braake , ronald sluijter, paul arthur, eveline wandl-vogt.

Begrüßung und Einführung von Prof. Dr. Susanne S. Renner ( Lehrstuhl für Systematische Botanik und Mykologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Direktorin des Botanischen Gartens München-Nymphenburg und der Botanischen Staatssammlung München )

Grußwort von Generalkonsul José Mauro da Fonseca Costa Couto (Generalkonsulat von Brasilien in München)

Vortrag von  Dr. Markus Wesche (ehem. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften , Deutsche Geschichtsquellen ):

Alle Bücher im Gepäck? Martius' Vorbereitungen der Brasilienreise

Filmpremiere für München: Dokumentarfilm 

Das Siebengestirn

von Angelika Weber M.A. (Omnis Terra Media GmbH)

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jürke Grau (Vorsitzender der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Botanischen Gartens München e.V. )

Vom Amazonas zurück an die Isar - Martius in München  Beginn: 19:00 Uhr Ort: Großer Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss des Botanischen Instituts, Menzinger Straße 67, 80638 München

Deutsche Biographie records over one million visitors for the first time in 2016

In 2010, the Deutsche Biographie has been made available to the German-speaking world as a historical-biographical information system, enabling scholars to conduct scientific research. Offering certified facts, the data system contains at its core approximately 49,000 articles as published in the encyclopaedias " Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie " ( ADB; General German Biography ) and " Neue Deutsche Biographie " ( NDB; New German Biography ; volumes 1 to 25 , A to Tecklenborg ). The current state of expansion, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG; German Research Foundation ) from 2014 till 2016, provides valid information on more than 730,000 individuals.

By using authority data (Normdaten), it is now possible to access numerous more sources such as encyclopaedias, scientific sources, literature, objects/ oeuvres, and portraits directly on the Internet. Already available in the past, the numerous visual representations of sources have been massively extended. The project's organizers thus react to the current rapid increase of network analysis. In addition, the geographical functions necessary when doing map work have also been expanded (subjects such as places of birth or death, geographic data relating to individuals' activities, and burial sites can be selected and combined freely).

The project's high attractiveness is illustrated by continuously rising user numbers, with "unique visitors" having exceeded the mark of 1 million for the first time during a year in September 2016.

The current state of the project allows for further development of the Deutsche Biographie, eventually turning it into a scientific lab. The final goal is to provide future scholars with data samples from the Deutsche Biographie, enabling them to pursue their projects on an individual as well as collaborative basis. The scientific lab is currently subject of a new application for third party funds.

Deutsche Biographie:

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de

Cooperation with

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library)

Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives)

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

Deutsches Museum München

Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg .

Deutsches Filminstitut     -   ( filmportal.de )   Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz   -   ( Kalliope ) Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)   -   ( Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte ) - ( Alexander von Humboldt auf Reisen ) Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (Saxon State and University Library Dresden)   -   ( Deutsche Fotothek ) - ( Digitale Sammlungen, Digital Collections ) Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg ( Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Baden-Württemberg LEO-BW, Regional Information System for Baden-Wuerttemberg ) - ( Archivportal-D ) Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz    -  ( Regesta Imperii ) - ( Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften) - ( Controversia et Confessio ) Zentrum für Historische Friedensforschung an der Universität Bonn    -   ( Acta Pacis Westphalicae digital )  Akademie der bildenden Künste München    -   ( Matrikelbücher )

Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz / Rheinische Landesbibliothek    -   ( Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank / Rhineland-Palatinate Persons Database )

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe / LWL-Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte   -   ( Westfälische Geschichte / History of Westphalia )

Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde    -   ( Sächsische Biografie / Saxonian Biography )

Deutsche Biographie

Conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of volume one of the Australian Dictionary of Biography   True Biographies of Nations? Exploring the Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography National Centre of Biography Australian National University College of Arts & Social Sciences Canberra, 30 June - 2 July 2016 Program

Bavarian State Library

The munich digitization center, friedrich  rückert, paul julius baron de reuter.

National Biographies Jinan, CISH, 23.-29. August 2015

Europa baut auf Biographien Wien, ÖAW, 6.-8. Oktober 2015

Wikimedia - Dynamic links to external resources

Europa baut auf Biographien Aspekte, Bausteine, Normen und Standards für eine europäische Biographik Conference at Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ( Institut für Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung / Forschungsbereich Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon , Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities , Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung ) with Österreichische Nationalbibliothek , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz and Neue Deutsche Biographie . Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ( Hofburg , Oratorium), Wien 1 6. - 8. Oktober 2015

Johanna Rachinger | Generaldirektorin der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Brigitte Mazohl | Präsidentin der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissen­schaften

Michael Gehler | Direktor des Instituts für Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung: Europa, Europäisierung, Europäistik, europäische Integration und die Folgen für die Biographie­forschung

Paul Arthur | Sydney: Integrating biographical data in large-scale research resources: Current and future directions Piek Vossen | Amsterdam: Modelling provenance and perspectives in biographical data

Block 1: Biographie gestern und heute Chair: Ernst Bruckmüller | Wien

Hans-Christof Kraus | Passau/München: Die Anfänge der lexikalisch-biographischen For­schung bei Herbert Schöffler Nora Mengel | München: ' In meinem Werk ist Oesterreich' - zum Werkverständnis des Biographen Constant von Wurzbach

Marc v. Knorring | Passau: Biographie und Vergangenheitsdeutung. Deutsche Wissenschaft­ler und Künstler nach 1918 und ihr Blick auf die Vorkriegszeit Lars Jendral | Koblenz: Die Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank: biographische Informa­tionen einer Regionalbibliographie Marcus Weidner | Münster: Regionale Biographien im Zeitalter des Internet

  Block 2: Bausteine zu einer europäischen Biographik Chair: Michael Gehler | Hildesheim

Marcello Verga | Florenz: From National Biographical Dictionaries to a Biographical Dictionary of Europeans: Topics for Discussion Frank Metasch | Dresden: Lokal – regional – national – europäisch: Wie verknüpft die euro­päische Biographik die Lebensebenen der Europäer? Stefan Majewski | Wien: Massendigitalisierung als Basis geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung

Ulrich Lantermann | Wettingen: Wikipedia – eine Ergänzung der Biographien-Landschaft Hubert Bergmann | Wien: Ein sprachübergreifendes biographisches Lexikon als anthropony­mische Herausforderung Thierry Declerck | Saarbrücken: Semantische Repräsentation von biographischen Datensätzen und deren Verlinkung im Rahmen des Linked (Open) Data Frameworks

Block 3: Normen und Standards für eine europäische Biographik Chair: Malte Rehbein | Passau

Thomas Busch | München: Anforderungen an Normdatenbestände im Kontext der Europäisie­rung biographischer Angebote im Internet Marten Düring | Sanem: „Historische Netzwerkanalyse“ als Methodik Christine Gruber – Eveline Wandl-Vogt | Wien: „APIS“  – Digitale biographische Blütenlese

Bernhard Ebneth, Matthias Reinert | München: Potentiale der Deutschen Biographie ( www.deutsche-biographie.de ) als historisch-biographisches Informationssystem André Blessing – Jonas Kuhn | Stuttgart: Die Exploration größerer biographischer Textsammlungen mit computerlinguistischen Methoden Elian Carsenat | Paris: Exploring the onomastics of the Austrian Biographical Dictionary (ÖBL)

Marco Jorio | Bern: Transnationale und transkulturelle Biographien in den deutschsprachigen Nationalbiographien (ÖBL, NDB, HLS, HLFL) Robert Luft | München: Nationale und regionale Biographien in Europa oder europäische Per­sönlichkeiten? Zu Auswahlkriterien und Darstellungen nationaler, transnationaler und regio­naler Lexika

Frank Lothar Kroll | Chemnitz: Europäische Herrscherbiographie – Wege zu einer neuen Dy­nastiegeschichte in komparatistischer Perspektive Franz Adlgasser | Wien: Der österreichische Reichsrat als mitteleuropäisches Kaleidoskop

Block 4: Fortsetzung Chair: Hans-Christof Kraus | Passau/München

Volkhard Huth | Bensheim/Darmstadt – Dario Kampkaspar | Wolfenbüttel Biographische Erkenntnischancen und Netzwerkstrukturen Daniela Angetter | Wien: Wege des sozialen Aufstiegs – Eliten im 19. Jahrhundert Irene Nawrocka | Wien: Österreichische ExilantInnen in Schweden Helmut Pfanner | Lochau: Biographik der Emigration und des Exils im 20. Jahrhundert

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Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH) International Commitee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) CISH’s XXIInd CONGRESS XXIIème Congrès du CISH JINAN (23-29 August /23-29 août 2015)

Thème spécialisé 7  /  Specialised theme 7 National Biographies Organizer: Marcello VERGA ( Università degli Studi di Firenze ) With the support of the Italian National Committee Discussant: Stefan BERGER ( Ruhr-Universität Bochum ) Jaime Olmedo RAMOS (Director Técnico of the Diccionario Biográfico Español in the Real Academia de la Historia ): ¿Qué cosa no es un diccionario biográfico? Errores y desenfoques en su recepción Mikel URQUIJO GOITIA and Joseba AGIRREAZKUENAGA ZIGORRAGA ( Universidad del País Vasco ): Why and how national biography in the XXI Century? Marco JORIO (Chief director of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland ): From National Biography to Transnational Biography Portal Fulvio CONTI ( Università degli Studi di Firenze ) : Un popolo di poeti, di artisti, di eroi…”. Men and women in the Italian Dictionary of Biography   Marja JALAVA ( University of Helsinki ):  Reparation of Historical Injustices or Forced Integration? – The Role of Minorities in the National Biography of Finland Vol. II C. W. (Mineke) BOSCH ( University of Groningen ): Writing the national biographical dictionaries: a gender perspective cf. Biographie-Portal / Biographical Portal   -  Neue Deutsche Biographie

Información histórico-biográfica en línea, Creado y administrado por Bernhard Ebneth Diccionarios nacionales e internacionales en medios electrónicos

Historisch-biographische Informationsmittel, Erstellt und bearbeitet von Bernhard Ebneth Nationale und internationale biographische Lexika in elektronischen Medien

Mapping historical networks: Building the new Austrian Prosopographical/Biographical Information System (APIS)

Instituto Cervantes Munich , Alfons-Goppel-Str. 7

Matej Ďurčo ( Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities - OEAW ) Christine Gruber ( Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon - INZ - OEAW )

2015, July 16 th

APIS is a joint project of Vorgestellt wird das Projekt von:

Kurzbeschreibung: Es sollen spezifische Abfragemöglichkeiten und Analysewerkzeuge entwickelt, Suchergebnisse visualisierbar und Personennetzwerke, Bewegungsprofile usw. abbildbar werden. Zentrale Forschungsfragen, die das Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung einbringt, betreffen die geographische Rekonstruktion der Wanderungsmuster, die demographische Analyse der Elitenwanderer und die Perspektivenwechsel von einer Mikro- auf eine Makroebene. Das Österreichische Biographische Lexikon wird damit zu einem digitalen Werkzeug der historischen Elitenforschung ausgebaut.

Marcello Verga, The National Biography Dictionaries. The International Success (and the critical issues) of a model of writing national History (XIX-XXI century) , Proposal for XXII nd CISH Congress, in Jinan, China 23 to 29 August 2015 Marcello Verga , The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts, in:   Setting the Standards. Institutions, Networks and Communities of National Historiography , ed. by Ilaria Porciani and Jo Tollebeek , Writing the NationWriting Series. National Histographies and the Making of Nation States in the 19th and 20th Century Europe , Basingstoke 2012 , po. 89-104 ISBN 978-0-230-5000051 Marcello Verga , l Dizionario è morto. Viva i dizionari! Note per uan storia dei dizionari biografici nazionali in Europa, in: Storica, vol. 40, 2008, pp. 7-32 ISSN 1973-2236

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Die Gattung Autobiographie, so wie sie herkömmlich definiert wurde, steht im engen Zusammenhang mit der Herausbildung des männlichen, bürgerlichen Selbstbewußtseins. Seit dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich die Autobiographie im Zusammenhang mit dem Kampf des Individuums um seine bürgerliche Identität. Oft zeigt sich das an dem Stolz des Autobiographen, der nicht verschweigt, sich seine Stellung und Bedeutung in der öffentlichen Gesellschaft selbst erarbeitet zu haben. Die Adligen, so behaupten viele dieser frühen Autobiographen, besäßen ihre gesellschaftlichen Rollen nur zufällig, aufgrund ihrer Herkunft und nicht etwa, weil sie innere Qualitäten besäßen. Durch die Autobiographie beansprucht ein Autor eine gewisse Repräsentanz, die gesellschaftliche Achtung seines Lebens — auch wenn es als negatives Beispiel dargestellt wird. Das ist meistens ein schwer errungener Stolz. Die Geschichte des Kampfes um die Identität oder die gesellschaftliche Stellung bildet zumeist das Kernstück einer Autobiographie.

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Autobiography continues to be one of the most popular forms of writing, produced by authors from across the social and professional spectrum. It is also central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians, and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world. The Introduction describes what autobiography means and compares it to other forms of ‘life-writing’. Autobiographical writing is seen to act as a window on to concepts of self, identity, and subjectivity, and into the ways in which these are themselves determined by time and circumstance.

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Germany Biographies

A biography is a history of a person's life. In a biography you may find birth, marriage, and death information and the names of parents, spouses, children, or other family members. Use information from a biography carefully because it may contain inaccuracies.

• 1.1 The German Biographical Archive
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Collective Biographies [ edit | edit source ]

Many brief biographies have been gathered and published in collective biographies, sometimes called biographical encyclopedias or biographical dictionaries. These works usually include only biographies of prominent or well-known German citizens. Other collective biographies feature biographies of specific groups of people, such as merchants or students of an academy.

The German Biographical Archive [ edit | edit source ]

The source below is a collection of 263 important German biographical works published between 1700 and 1910:

• Deutsches biographisches Archiv = The German Biographical Archive. München, Germany: K. G. Saur, 198-? FS Library fiche #6,002,159 This work, on 1,447 microfiche, refers to about 225,000 eminent Germans.

An index to this collection is listed below:

• Koch, Hans-Albrecht. Deutscher Biographischer Index (German biographical index). Four Volumes. München, Germany: K. G. Saur, 1986. FHK book 943 D32k Volume 1-4.

Other Collections [ edit | edit source ]

There are several other major collections of German biographies. Listed below are two important collections:

Führende Persönlichkeiten (Leading personalities). See Germany Genealogy .

• Neue Deutsche Biographie (New German biography). Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot, 1953-. (FS Library book 943 D3nd.) The first 16 volumes, published through 1993, include the surnames Aachen to Melanchthon.

FS Library Access [ edit | edit source ]

Collective biographies at the FamilySearch Library are usually listed in the Place Search of the catalog under:

GERMANY - BIOGRAPHY

GERMANY, [STATE] - BIOGRAPHY

You will also find some biographical information in German encyclopedias.

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Franz Kafka Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Literary Devices - Franz Kafka The Guardian - Where to start with: Franz Kafka National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Official Site of Franz Kafka Museum The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - Biography of Franz Kafka The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Franz Kafka Bohemian-Saxon Literary landscape - Franz Kafka Franz Kafka - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) Table Of Contents His father, a materialistic man of business and a tyrant in his household, had a significant influence on Franz Kafka’s life and work. Kafka felt oppressed by him for most of his life. He appears in many of Kafka’s works, often as an overwhelming despotic power, as in The Trial . Franz Kafka moved in German Jewish intellectual circles throughout his life. He received a doctorate in law in 1906 from the University of Prague. Afterward he worked for insurance companies, which was time-consuming and left him only late night hours for writing. He was often ill, and sickness ultimately forced him to retire in 1922. Franz Kafka’s work is characterized by anxiety and alienation, and his characters often face absurd situations. He is famous for his novels The Trial , in which a man is charged with a crime that is never named, and The Metamorphosis , in which the protagonist wakes to find himself transformed into an insect.  Recent News Franz Kafka (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia , Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria) was a German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial ) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis )—express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America . Franz Kafka, the son of Julie Löwy and Hermann Kafka, a merchant, was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family. After two brothers died in infancy, he became the eldest child and remained, for the rest of his life, conscious of his role as elder brother; Ottla, the youngest of his three sisters, became the family member closest to him. Kafka strongly identified with his maternal ancestors because of their spirituality, intellectual distinction, piety, rabbinical learning, melancholy disposition , and delicate physical and mental constitution. He was not, however, particularly close to his mother. Subservient to her overwhelming ill-tempered husband and his exacting business, she shared with her spouse a lack of comprehension of their son’s unprofitable and, they feared, unhealthy dedication to the literary “recording of [his]…dreamlike inner life.” The figure of Kafka’s father overshadowed his work as well as his existence. The figure is, in fact, one of his most impressive creations. In his imagination this coarse, practical, and domineering shopkeeper and patriarch who worshipped nothing but material success and social advancement belonged to a race of giants and was an awesome, admirable, but repulsive tyrant. In Kafka’s most important attempt at autobiography , Brief an den Vater (written 1919; Letter to Father ), a letter that never reached the addressee, Kafka attributed his failure to live, to cut loose from parental ties and establish himself in marriage and fatherhood, as well as his escape into literature , to the prohibitive father figure, which instilled in him the sense of his own impotence. He felt his will had been broken by his father. The conflict with the father is reflected directly in Kafka’s story Das Urteil (1913; The Judgment ). It is projected on a grander scale in Kafka’s novels, which portray in lucid , deceptively simple prose a man’s desperate struggle with an overwhelming power, one that may persecute its victim (as in The Trial ) or one that may be sought after and begged in vain for approval (as in Das Schloss [1926; The Castle ]). Yet the roots of Kafka’s anxiety and despair go deeper than his relationship with his father and family, with whom he chose to live in close and cramped proximity for the major part of his adult life. The source of Kafka’s despair lies in a sense of ultimate isolation from true communion with all human beings—the friends he cherished, the women he loved, the job he detested, the society he lived in—and with God, or, as he put it, with true indestructible Being. The son of an assimilated Jew who held only perfunctorily to the religious practices and social formalities of the Jewish community , Kafka was German in both language and culture . He was a timid, guilt-ridden, and obedient child who did well in elementary school and in the Altstädter Staatsgymnasium, an exacting high school for the academic elite. He was respected and liked by his teachers. Inwardly, however, he rebelled against the authoritarian institution and the dehumanized humanistic curriculum, with its emphasis on rote learning and classical languages. Kafka’s opposition to established society became apparent when, as an adolescent, he declared himself a socialist as well as an atheist . Throughout his adult life he expressed qualified sympathies for the socialists, he attended meetings of Czech anarchists (before World War I ), and in his later years he showed marked interest and sympathy for a socialized Zionism . Even then he was essentially passive and politically unengaged. As a Jew, Kafka was isolated from the German community in Prague , but, as a modern intellectual, he was also alienated from his own Jewish heritage. He was sympathetic to Czech political and cultural aspirations , but his identification with German culture kept even these sympathies subdued. Thus, social isolation and rootlessness contributed to Kafka’s lifelong personal unhappiness. Kafka did, however, become friendly with some German Jewish intellectuals and literati in Prague, and in 1902 he met Max Brod . This minor literary artist became the most intimate and solicitous of Kafka’s friends, and eventually, as Kafka’s literary executor, he emerged as the promoter, saviour, and interpreter of Kafka’s writings and as his most influential biographer. The two men became acquainted while Kafka was studying law at the University of Prague . He received his doctorate in 1906, and in 1907 he took up regular employment with an insurance company. The long hours and exacting requirements of the Assicurazioni Generali, however, did not permit Kafka to devote himself to writing. In 1908 he found in Prague a job in the seminationalized Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. There he remained until 1917, when tuberculosis forced him to take intermittent sick leaves and, finally, to retire (with a pension) in 1922, about two years before he died. In his job he was considered tireless and ambitious; he soon became the right hand of his boss, and he was esteemed and liked by all who worked with him. In fact, generally speaking, Kafka was a charming, intelligent, and humorous individual, but he found his routine office job and the exhausting double life into which it forced him (for his nights were frequently consumed in writing) to be excruciating torture , and his deeper personal relationships were neurotically disturbed. The conflicting inclinations of his complex and ambivalent personality found expression in his sexual relationships. Inhibition painfully disturbed his relations with Felice Bauer, to whom he was twice engaged before their final rupture in 1917. Later his love for Milena Jesenská Pollak was also thwarted. His health was poor and office work exhausted him. In 1917 he was diagnosed as having tuberculosis, and from then onward he spent frequent periods in sanatoriums. In 1923 Kafka went to Berlin to devote himself to writing. During a vacation on the Baltic coast later that year, he met Dora Dymant (Diamant), a young Jewish socialist. The couple lived in Berlin until Kafka’s health significantly worsened during the spring of 1924. After a brief final stay in Prague, where Dymant joined him, he died of tuberculosis in a clinic near Vienna . Literary Theory Literary Genres Tanya Romero-Gonzalez Linguistic Autobiography: A Reflection I wrote the following linguistic autobiography in the Fall of 2012 as a reflective task for the linguistic seminar “Principles of Language Learning and Teaching” taught by Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl. I am from Málaga, Spain, and my native language is Spanish. I began learning English in primary school and continued through high school. The main focus of the classroom was grammar study with priority given to reading and writing. I was not the best student back then, but English was the subject I enjoyed most. I have an aunt who lives in Massachusetts, and I spent a month with her and her family in the States at age 12. For the next few years I continued to visit them during the summer and while I was able to understand English, I was reticent to actually speak it except when needed. I also took Latin for two years (which I really enjoyed but didn´t truly remember when I had to take my PhD required Latin course two summers ago). I also wanted to take French in high school, but the school decided that my overall grades were not good enough and that I should take an “easier” subject. Regardless, I was eventually required to take French at the end of high school, but everyone in the class had already taken either two or four years of French. I remember struggling through the class and just wanting to pass the exams. After that, the only other foreign language that I have formally studied has been Portuguese. When it came to choosing a major (which in Spain you do prior to starting university) it was clear to me that I wanted to study English Philology. 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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works, especially The Trial and The Metamorphosis, express the anxieties and the alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America. Many of Kafka's fables contain an inscrutable, baffling mixture of the normal and the fantastic. Language biographies and the analysis of language situations: On the German language boundary. German was the only language spoken in the family. ... The language biography approach focuses in particular on the values and functions different languages possess in an ... Literary Autozoographies: Contextualizing Species Life in German ... What does it mean to take animal autobiography seriously and how can we account for the representation of life-narrating animals? The article investigates animal autobiographies as 'literary autozoographies', drawing attention to both the generic contexts and the epistemological premises of these texts. Adopting a double-bind approach stemming from autobiographical research as well as ... Linguistic Autobiography: A Reflection Linguistic Autobiography: A Reflection. I wrote the following linguistic autobiography in the Fall of 2012 as a reflective task for the linguistic seminar "Principles of Language Learning and Teaching" taught by Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl. I am from Málaga, Spain, and my native language is Spanish. I began learning English in primary school ... German : biography of a language : Sanders, Ruth H : Free Download Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the German language as it evolved across the millennia. --from publisher description Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index Germanic beginnings. Timeline : from the earliest settlements in Northern Europe to the ... PDF GERMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Overview of German autobiography Prior to 1700, German culture is virtually closed to autobiography in the modern sense.There is an exception to this point—the wonderful autobiographical novel Simplzzisimus (1668) by Grimmelshausen)—but on the whole the writer as an explorer of personal roots and motivations barely existed. AUTOBIOGRAPHIE Autobranche. Autobus. Autobusbahnhof. Autobusbahnhöfe. Autobushaltestelle. Autobushaltestellen. Autobusse. Search for more words in the English-Dutch dictionary. Translation for 'Autobiographie' in the free German-English dictionary and many other English translations. assignment essay homework paper phd report resume review speech thesis