German Studies: Biographical Reference

Biographies of well-known individuals who died before 1900 in the areas of art, culture, science and medicine, law, and politics. Search includes NDB as well.

The Annotierbare Elektronische Interaktive Österreichische Universal-Information System. Provides culturally relevant information about Austria, including Austrian literary figures.

16 vols. Late 19th-century edition.

19 vols. Major competitor to the Brockhaus encyclopedia until their merger in 1986.

Successor to the ADB, information on deceased people in German-speaking areas from the Middle Ages until today. The persons included must have been significant for the areas of either politics, economics, the arts or in social, scientific, or technical areas. Only partially complete (A-Sta). Search interface includes ADB.

Major 18th century German encyclopedia.

Provides searchable full-text of more than 350,000 literary works in the English language-poetry, drama, and prose; 175 full-text literary journals; the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; and reference sources including American Poetry and other bibliographies, biographies, and dictionaries. Individual units run from Anglo-Saxon literature, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries right up to the late 20th Century.