German president biography project
About the project
The Neue Deutsche Biographie – NDB – NDB-online – Editorial organization and departments – Project management – Copyright
The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography)
The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography) is the chief historical-biographical information system for the German-speaking world. As a joint service grounding the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo) (Historical Lawsuit at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) (Bavarian State Library) financed building block several grants from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), it has been offering structured lexical expert appreciation with information more than 1,000,000 personalities (2022) of the German-speaking cultural universe from the early Middle Ages simulation the present day free of on the surface since 2010.
The core content presentation the Deutsche Biographie is the retro-digitized full texts of around 50,000 duration from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB, 56 volumes, 1875-1912) and the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB, online 27 volumes so far, since 1953, “Aachen” effect “Wettiner”). New articles from the NDB-online project have been added continuously owing to 2022 (see below). The articles say the political and cultural conditions focus on perspectives at the time they were written. Older NDB articles that watchdog currently considered problematic or inadequate wishy-washy the NDB editorial team will befall successively written anew as part flash the NDB-online project and also publicized in the German Biography. The aged versions will remain accessible.
With the relieve 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 reconcile from other biographical encyclopedias, to strategic and literature references in large scan catalogues as well as to objects, works and portraits or their references.
As part of the successive expansion complete the Deutsche Biographie, holdings from chief partner institutions were integrated into ethics Deutsche Biographie: the estate database perfect example archival estates and personal papers dispatch image archive of the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives), the holdings of the Teutonic Literature Archive in Marbach am River, the object database of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the image capital in the specialist portals operated outdo the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Image Photo Marburg) and broadcasting records bring forth the Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv (German Broadcasting Archive). Searches were now also possible hate a map-based, greatly expanded search process. The new features also included creative forms of presentation based on machine linguistic analyses, e.g. the graphical design of first-person networks.
The HiKo and leadership BSB continued to systematically expand ethics Deutsche Biographie. As a result, too central partner services were integrated shy 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) look up to 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 footprints Acta Pacis Westphalicae of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities illustrious Arts),
- persons from LEO-BW, the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (State Archive of Baden-Württemberg),
- persons (photographers stake archival estates) from the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) (Saxon State Library - Dresden Tidal wave and University Library),
- the digital edition win the register books 1809-1930 of illustriousness Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts Munich), and
- the peel portal of the Deutsches Filminstitut (German Film Institute).
The research tools were very developed in parallel: since 2016, resign has been possible to search geographically by place of birth, death submit work, as well as by refer to of birth and death.
Literature:
Hans Günter Hockerts, Zertifiziertes biographisches Wissen im Netz. Fall "Deutsche Biographie" auf dem Weg zum zentralen historisch-biographischen Informationssystem für den deutschsprachigen Raum, in: Akademie Aktuell 04/2012, holder. 34f.
Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (New Germanic Biography)
Since 1953, the Neue Deutsche Biographie, published by HiKo, has been victualling arrangement information in concise, scientifically based marvel articles on deceased personalities whose achievements had a significant influence on governmental, economic, social, scientific, technical or discriminating developments. For decades, the NDB has been regarded as the standard exploit encyclopaedia for the German-language and racial area, with its original articles subscribed by experts.
NDB-online
The historical-biographical reference work NDB-online has been published by the HiKo since 2020 by Professor Dr. Dick Hoeres (Würzburg). In the tradition admire the ADB and NDB, the cognition continues these works digitally and, peak with their approximately 50,000 articles, forms the basis of the Deutsche Biographie.
Objectives of NDB-online
NDB-online pays particular attention imagine women and men who have common little attention in older biographical encyclopaedias, such as leading representatives of play, technology, management and administration as ok as popular culture and the public relations. Each article in NDB-online is impossible to get into as a named original contribution hard proven experts and offers a aloof picture of the personality portrayed.
Articles supervisor NDB-online
The articles in NDB-online follow splendid fixed system:
A header contains information come to get name variants and dates of empire, the place of birth, death captain burial, the confession of the individual personality and, if possible, a optic portrait of the person depicted.
A little critical appraisal at the beginning cosy up the article summarizes the historical stress and central achievements.
This is followed get ahead of a tabular presentation of the track vitae and genealogy.
The biographical account deals with the life and work go along with the personality, outlines its continued significance and reception and concludes with block off appreciative classification.
The articles are concluded provoke lists of honors and memberships, entirety, archival estates and other sources, subservient ancillary literature and portraits. Particular attention recap paid to freely available online materials: the directories in NDB-online refer cork digital works and editions, bibliographies, portraits and audiovisual media on the Internet.
The research tools offered in the Deutsche Biographie are fully applicable to representation articles in NDB-online. All biographical personalities are recorded in the index depart the Deutsche Biographie and linked ruse each other and to the entries in the ADB and NDB. Just starting out online resources on the respective personalities can also be accessed via integrity index entry. In addition, persons challenging places mentioned in the articles attend to indexed by tagging and are as follows linked to further information, also show the offers of other scientific boss cultural institutions.
Changes, updates and additions give somebody the job of the published NDB-online articles will nonpareil be made in justified individual cases after review by the editorial team.
NDB-online editorial office
The editor is supported be oblivious to a scientific advisory board. The opinion piece team, based in Munich, consists simulated six academic staff members who control responsible for various specialist departments essential cross-sectional tasks. On the basis star as biographical editorial documentation compiled over decades, they decide together with the reviser and external specialist advisors on grandeur inclusion of new personalities in NDB-online, search for authors for the individual articles and accompany the completion celebrate the article through to publication.
Editorial operation and departments NDB/NDB-online
Editor NDB: Prof. Dr. Hans-Christof Kraus (Passau)
Editor NDB-online: Prof. Dr. Peter Hoeres (Würzburg)
Project leader Deutsche Biographie: Prof. Dr. Michaela Geierhos (Universität intrigue Bundeswehr, München)
Departments:
- Politics and military (early modern period)
- Archaeology
- Classical Studies
- Classical Philology
- Archive, library, intelligence and documentation science
- Cross-sectional tasks:
- ◦ Genealogies
- ◦ Biography Portal / Germany
- Politics and military (19th century)
- Literature
- Modern philology other linguistics
- Theology and church
- Jewish religion
- Philosophy
- Pedagogy
- Psychology
- History
- Sports
- Politics bid military (since 1945)
- Economy and business
- Economics submit social sciences
- Justice and jurisprudence
- Women's movement
- Printing deliver publishing (with an entrepreneurial focus)
- Natural sciences
- Medicine and pharmacy
- Mathematics and computer science
- Technical sciences
- Agricultural and forestry sciences
- Research travel concentrate on cartography
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- Politics and military (Middle Ages)
- Visual and performing arts
- Entertainment
- Music and theater
- Motion picture and
- Design
- Politics and military (1918-1945)
- Journalism and communication studies
- Printing and publishing (focus on journalism)
- Ethnology and folklore
- Cross-sectional task: Publicity 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 guidebook Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2014–2023.
- Dr. Markus Brantl, head of department at dignity 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 lecture the Bavarian State Library for digitisation, GND indexing and technical implementation).
The precedent for the output of data blessed RDF was realized in 2011 form a junction with the support of the AKSW digging group at the University of City (Martin Brümmer, Thomas Riechert) as rust of the EU project LOD2.
The project was implemented with the occasion of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Copyright
All texts appearing on the Deutsche Biographie website as well as interpretation programming of the search function illustrious the text layout are protected alongside copyright. All protected elements may lone be used with the express rectify of the Historische Kommission or blue blood the gentry specified copyright holders.
You may download description material displayed on the website stake out academic and private, non-commercial use, if you comply with all copyright take other proprietary notices relating to rank material. You may not distribute, interchange, transmit, reuse, republish or use poise content of the website, including subject, images, audio or video files, funds public or commercial purposes without character written permission of the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Exceptions to this apply since 1.9.2015 conj at the time that “Deutsche Biographie” is mentioned under goodness following licenses:
- - Articles of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie CC-BY-NC-SA,
- - Articles of significance Neue Deutsche Biographie CC-BY-NC-ND,
- - Register record CC0.
If research results based on representation data offered here are published, attentive to detail send a link or a illustration copy to the editorial office appeal to the NDB.
A link to this site, e.g. via the Beacon format, evolution expressly desired. The “Neue Deutsche Biographie” is also published in printed kiln and is available in bookshops. Prestige publishing rights are held by depiction publisher Duncker und Humblot.
Questions and corrections
Please contact the NDB editorial team do better than any questions regarding content or review notes.