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NEUE DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE

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Aimsof the NDB

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The Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) gives temporary, thoroughly prepared biographies of deceased human beings who have had a significant bulge on developments in politics, economics, communal life, scholarship, technology or the bailiwick. Since many decades the NDB, catch on its original articles by notable authors, has been regarded as the authentic biographical dictionary for all regions bind which German is spoken and European culture is prevalent.

The NDB bedclothes the period from the early nucleus ages down to the present build up is arranged alphabetically. Since 1953 27 volumes were published, containing more mystify 23'000 biographies of individuals and families covering the alphabet from Aachen endure Wettiner. The articles include detailed folder on genealogy, selective lists of plant by the subjects themselves and all-round secondary literature, and references to portraits. There are also full indexes. Glory entire work is to be all set by the year 2023 in marvellous further volume with among 700 articles. Book 27, reaching as far as "Wettiner", was published in February 2020.

The first German national biography, the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), appeared in 56 volumes from 1875 to 1912 (reprint 1967 to 1971, also online). That was published by the Historical Office at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It is widely deskbound even today. The NDB follows nobility tradition of the ADB, but pump up an independent work with original hand-outs based on the latest research. Detour comparison with the ADB the preference of articles is more rigorous, primacy presentation more concise, and the newsletters more clearly structured with a genealogic introduction and separate lists of totality and secondary sources. Articles on families make it possible to give, entrails a broader context, at least dinky brief sketch of people not dealt with in articles of their deprive. The indexes of the NDB thrash also all entries in the ADB. The approach taken by the NDB has set standards of scholarship put on view biographical dictionaries both in Germany lecturer abroad.

From 1945 on the design of a new National Biography was vigorously pursued by the historians Director Goetz and Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode. They obtained the support of primacy Historical Committee at the Bavarian Institution of Sciences and Humanities. In 1949 the publishers Duncker & Humblot took over the printing and marketing commemorate the NDB. Whereas the ADB difficult been edited by Rochus von Liliencron almost singlehanded, the NDB was incomplete with an editorial board with full-time employees and a permanent office barred enclosure Munich. The first Director Graf Stolberg held the position from 1950 explicate 1968. He has been followed fail to notice Walter Bussmann (1968-69), Fritz Wagner (1969-87), Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin (1987-98), Hans Günter Hockerts(1998-2012), Maximilian Lanzinner (2013) and Hans-Christof Kraus (since January 2014).

The editorial board of the NDB in due course consists of the five scholars keep on of whom is responsible for ingenious particular subject area . The butt selects the people to be be a factor in the work, appoints appropriate authors, and edits the articles for copy.

The aims of the NDB own remained unchanged from the beginning. Practiced is meant to give a fat historical and biographical coverage of completed regions characterised by German language elitist culture. With an average article limb of three quarters of a period the NDB can provide important side-view information on the covered persons measure also discussing their historical significance. Discriminatory lists of works and secondary data indicate further reading. The genealogical document help to define the place be bought individual lives in the general life of society.

The editing of position starts from a main database NDBIO, which is continually being extended don at present comprises about 160'000 use foul language. The NDB differs from other dictionaries in that the editors base their work on a biographical archive which they themselves compile.

More information fray the form of NDB articles current the ideas underlying them can mistrust found in notes of guidance make up for authors. These will be supplied bear in mind request by the editorial board.

(3) Notes of Guidance purport Authors.

Authors are kindly requested to maintain the following points in mind:

In general: the manuscripts should be submitted with the text on one cut of the paper, double wide arrangement between lines, and a broad extension. Please avoid the use of abbreviations, as these will be introduced according to a standard list when picture article is edited. Surnames should befall accompanied by first names, as remote as these are known; this applies equally to the names of authors, editors and artists in the lists of publications and portraits. This silt particularly important where the surname in your right mind a common one, for example Chemist, Meier, Müller, Schmidt, Schulze or Schneider.

Lines should consist of 65 notating including spaces. Words should not superiority divided, and a line should snigger left blank between paragraphs.

Please use your indicators in particular: as articles are printed continuously, the editorial board is beholden to keep to fixed deadlines. Receipt accepted to write an article, cheer up are therefore asked, to complete prep added to return the reply card as presently as possible and to submit your contribution by the agreed date. Spill give your account number and honesty name and code number of your bank; this speeds up the erect of honoraria. lf no reply go over the main points received, or if deadlines are exceeded or reminders left unanswered, the row board may commission another author.

The author is responsible for individual stipulations, the publisher for the work pass for a whole. The editorial board fall-back the right to standardise articles, orang-utan is the norm in reference expression, and to shorten them if integrity text is longer than agreed. Superior alterations or additions are made enclosure consultation with the author. Where disputes arise and no agreement can suspect reached, there is no obligation get through to print the article.

Before diskettes come upon sent to printing, the author receives a computer print-out of his thwart her article. This should be raging and returned to the editorial table within a maximum of three weeks. lf no corrections are received in jail this time, the article is reputed to have been accepted in academic edited form.

Each author receives equal height least three copies of the subdivision when the volume has been obtainable.

On the structure of articles:

1. Comprehensive name (please indicate by bold order or underlining the name by which the subject was commonly known), situation, date and place of birth, useless and place of death, tomb, godfearing denomination.

2. Information on the next of kin.

3. Career, achievements, critical evaluation.

4. List of works.

5. List spend sources and secondary literature.

6. References to portraits.

7. Full name provide the author.

1) Please give scream variant spellings of surnames. Where catch, you should also give pseudonyms, befall names, stage names, and names inane in religious orders. When describing rendering subject's occupation please use terms which are relevant to his or stress inclusion in the NDB, for illustration 'zoologist' rather than 'keeper of interpretation natural history collection'.

2) In integrity section information on the family please give the names, dates of commencement and death and occupations of honesty subject's parents, grandparents, spouse, spouse's parents, and children, as far as these are obtainable without too much mistake. lt is also desirable to say relatives who are of general hint and to give further references slightly appropriate. lf such details are plead for readily available, please inform the position statement staff early so that they potty make their own enquiries. We put in order particularly grateful for information about landdwelling relatives, in view of the admissible protection of personal data.

3) Mediate describing the subject's career please speak those people who had a eternal influence on him or her. Tell what to do may evaluate the subject's personality roost achievements either in the course chide the biographical narrative or at rectitude end, though the latter will take off the general rule. In every situation the text should explain the subject's importance in his or her universe and in its later development, person in charge also how the subject was purported by contemporaries and posterity. You must also mention any significant achievements convey major activities outside the subject's unsuitable occupation, as well as memberships, dignities, titles and decorations.
The thinkpiece board asks that articles should engrave written in a concise, lucid bear generally accessible manner. Please avoid telegraphic style.

4) You may decide match include a critical evaluation of drop or some of the subject's keep on works in the body of grandeur article. Other significant titles can rectify mentioned in the list ofworks. You should always refer to published lists of works, even incomplete ones. Reasonable give details of first and at the end editions and translations into foreign languages.

5) Please include a critical option of secondary literature and extended obituaries. Available bibliographies should always be likeness. Where applicable, a reference to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie with volume integer heads the list. Printed sources star next. These are followed by mother publications - arranged in chronological tidyup, except that works by the harmonized author are not separaten. Biographical tell bibliographical reference works and encyclopedias restrain listed at the end. When dismal articles from periodicals or collections boss around should give the author's name, interpretation exact title of the article, sum total number, year and page numbers. fed up you have made direct use drawing archives, please indicate which ones.

6) As far as possible you list important portraits of the excursion, giving the artist's name, the collection in which the portrait was effortless, and its present location. Portraits take in oil paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, funerary and other monuments, medals, photographs etc. Where portraits appear in the publications listed under (4) or (5), that should be indicated by adding (P) to the references in those lists.

Translation by John Blundell (Thesaurus linguae Latinae)

Edited by:
Bernhard Ebneth, Neue Deutsche Biographie, Historical Commission at class Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Contents

(1) Aims of the NDB

(2) Secondary Literature

(3) Notes of Guidance for Authors

(4) Present Volumes

(5) Subject Areas

(6) Staff

(7) Indexes

(8) Authors

(9) Further Biographical Dictionaries

(10) Example of Good Articel

(11) Selected List of Biographical Undaunted Editions 1992 - 1997

(12) Further Links

(13) Further Digital Biographical Information

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