Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon

Some volumes from the BBKL

The Biographisch-Bibliographische Kirchenlexikon ( BBKL ) is a biobibliographical reference work on church history that was founded in 1975 by the Protestant theologian and writer Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz . Today it is published by the Traugott Bautz publishing house .

With over 20,000 articles on deceased people, the BBKL is an important source of biographical information on people from the history of the Church as well as the history of philosophy . In addition to the presentation of the lives of people from the fields of theology , history , literature , music , painting , education and philosophy and with a description of the development of their work, the BBKL contains bibliographies of the works of the listed persons as well as a selection of secondary literature .

In addition to scientific representations, the BBKL also contains articles compiled from popular saint calendars. In particular, the Innsbruck church historian Ekkart Sauser has been criticized on various occasions for his numerous BBKL articles. Serious errors and omissions are corrected in the online edition of the BBKL with additions and supplements.

With the exception of a few articles whose authors did not consent to electronic exploitation, the entire work had been available as a full-text edition on the Internet free of charge since 1996. Since April 2011 only a few lines of the beginning of the article are freely available; A paid subscription must be taken out to display the entire text including the work and literature information.

For some articles, especially from earlier editions, the authors of the lemmas have continued to make their work available on other servers free of charge.

expenditure

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, from Volume 3 continued by Traugott Bautz (Ed.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . 14 volumes (+ supplementary volumes), Bautz, Hamm 1975ff.
  • Volume 1 (Aalders – Faustus v. Byzanz), Hamm 1975, 2nd unchanged edition 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1
  • Volume 2 (Faustus v. Mileve – Jeanne, d'Arc), Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8
  • Volume 3 (Jedin – Kleinschmidt), Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2
  • Volume 4 (Kleist – Leyden), Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7
  • Volume 5 (Leyen – Mönch), Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3
  • Volume 6 (Moenius – Patijn), Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1
  • Volume 7 (Patocka-Remachus), Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4
  • Volume 8 (Rembrandt – Scharbel (Charbel)), Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0
  • Volume 9 (Scharling – Sheldon), Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1
  • Volume 10 (Shelkov – Stoss, Andreas), Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X
  • Volume 11 (Stoss, Veit – Tieffenthaler), Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6
  • Volume 12 (Tibbon – Volpe), Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9
  • Volume 13 (Voltaire – Wolfram von Eschenbach), Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7
  • Volume 14 (Wolfram von Eschenbach – Zuygomalas, Theodosios and Supplements I), Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5
  • Volume 15 (Supplements II), Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8
  • Volume 16 (Supplements III), Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4
  • Volume 17 (Supplements IV), Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8
  • Volume 18 (Supplements V), Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7
  • Volume 19 (Supplements VI), Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1
  • Volume 20 (Supplements VII), Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3
  • Volume 21 (Supplements VIII), Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3
  • Volume 22 (Supplements IX), Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2
  • Volume 23 (Supplements X), Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3
  • Volume 24 (Supplements XI), Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9
  • Volume 25 (Supplements XII), Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7
  • Volume 26 (Supplements XIII), Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8
  • Volume 27 (Supplements XIV), Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 3-88309-393-9
  • Volume 28 (Supplements XV), Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 3-88309-413-7
  • Volume 29 (Supplements XVI), Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6
  • Volume 30 (Supplements XVII), Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6
  • Volume 31 (Supplements XVIII), Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8
  • Volume 32 (Supplements XIX), Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5
  • Volume 33 (Supplements XX), Nordhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88309-690-2
  • Volume 34 (Supplements XXI), Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4
  • Volume 35 (Supplements XXII), Nordhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-88309-882-1
  • Volume 36 (Supplements XXIII), Nordhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88309-920-0
  • Volume 37 (Supplements XXIV), Nordhausen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95948-142-7
  • Volume 38 (Supplements XXV), Nordhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95948-259-2
  • Volume 39 (Supplements XXVI), Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-350-6
  • Volume 40 (Supplements XXVII), Nordhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95948-426-8

literature

• 50 years of Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon. One way to the future. Edited by Traugott Bautz and Bernd Jaspert . Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95948-351-3

Web links

• Website

See also

• Encyclopédie des sciences ecclésiastiques
• Evangelical Church Lexicon
• Lexicon for theology and the church
• List of specialty encyclopedias
• Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity
• Religion Past and Present
• Real Theological Encyclopedia