Nobility Lexicon
A nobility lexicon is a genealogical reference work that lists (as completely as possible) all families of the nobility in a particular area.
German nobility lexica
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Of salvation. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon. 2 parts, Leipzig 1719; 1740–1747 ( edition 1719 , edition 1740 and 1747 )
- Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr von Krohne : General Teutsches Adels-Lexicon. 2 volumes, Lübeck 1774 and Hamburg 1776 (only letters A – M, volumes 1 , 2 )
- Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld : Austrian nobility lexicon of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, containing all persons who were elevated to the various degrees of German-Erbländischen or imperial nobility by the sovereigns of Austria from 1701 to 1820 because of their services to the imperial state. Vienna 1822–1824 ( digitized ) and ( digitized )
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon. 2 volumes, Ilmenau 1825–1826 ( volume 1 , 2 )
- Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . 5 volumes, Leipzig 1836–1839 ( volumes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 )
- Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein : Upper and Lower Saxony nobility lexicon. 1 volume, Leipzig 1843 (broken off with the article "Beuern", volume 1 )
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian monarchy . 3 volumes, Berlin 1855–1858 ( volumes 1 , 2 , 3 )
- Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the thriving and dead nobility in Germany. 4 volumes, Regensburg 1860–1866 ( volumes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 )
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . 9 volumes, Leipzig 1859–1870; unchanged reprints 1929–1930; 1973; 1995–1996 (the most comprehensive nobility encyclopedia to date, Volumes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 )
- Johannes Gallandi : Old Prussian Adelslexikon. 4 deliveries, Königsberg i. Pr. 1926–1935 (broken off in the middle of the article "Bieberstein")
- Karl Friedrich von Frank : Old Austrian Adels Lexicon , Volume 1 1825–1918 , (no longer published), Vienna, 1928
- Adelslexikon in the series Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . 18 volumes, 1972–2012
- Genealogical-heraldic nobility lexicon 1648-1918 , online database with status surveys, coat of arms descriptions and literature references ( adelslexikon.com )
Literature on noble lexicons
- Introduction. In: Adelslexikon. Volume 1 (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 53), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, pp. IX – XXVI