Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

German biographical reference work

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The volumes of the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie*

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; German: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.^[1]

It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Leipzig by Duncker & Humblot. The ADB contains biographies of about 26,500 people who died before 1900 and lived in the German language Sprachraum of their time, including people from the Netherlands before 1648.^[1]

Its successor, the Neue Deutsche Biographie, was started in 1953 and is planned to be finished in 2023. The index and full-text articles of ADB and NDB are freely available online via the website German Biography (Deutsche Biographie).

Notes

^ ^a ^b Ebneth 2014.

References

Reinert, Matthias; Schrott, Maximilian; Ebneth, Bernhard; Team deutsche-biographie.de (April 9, 2015), From Biographies to Data Curation — the Making of www.deutsche-biographie.de (PDF)
Ebneth, Bernhard (26 August 2014), Neue Deutsche Biographie, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

External links

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie – full-text articles at German Wikisource.
German Biography (Deutsche Biographie) – complete full-text articles, index and further information