Biografický lexikón Slovenska
The Biografický lexikón Slovenska ( German Biographical Lexicon of Slovakia ) is a biographical reference work that has been published since 2002 and presents personalities of different national origins who lived and worked on the territory of today's Slovak Republic or who had an external influence on the history, culture and science in this area have taken. The time frame ranges from the early medieval Great Moravian Empire to the year 2000.
Edition, stand
The lexicon is a revised, supplemented and updated version of the six-volume Slovak Biographical Dictionary ( Slovenský biografický slovník ), which was published from 1986 to 1994. Like this, it is published by the National Biographical Institute in Martin , an institution of the Slovak National Library . The edition, the overall direction of which is the responsibility of literary historian Augustín Maťovčík , will comprise ten volumes, six of which have been printed so far (as of August 2018):
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska IA - B. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2002. 638 p. ISBN 80-89023-16-9 .
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska II C - F. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2004. 696 cf. ISBN 80-89023-44-4 .
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska III G - H. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2007. 739 p. ISBN 978-80-89023-96-7 .
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska IV CH - Kl. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2010. 587 p. ISBN 978-80-89301-57-7 .
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska V Km - L. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2013. 852 cf. ISBN 978-80-8149-011-8 .
- Biografický lexikón Slovenska VI M - N. Martin: Slovenská národná knižnica; Národný biografický ústav, 2017. 796 p. ISBN 978-80-8149-079-8 .
meaning
The work has compared to its predecessor, the Slovak biographical dictionary, not only a greater amount of time on, but also corrects the present there, in the real socialism politically imposed sidedness in the choice of persons Article; Now emigrants , dissidents and other personalities excluded from public communication at the time, including those from religious and ecclesiastical life, are given due consideration and honored in a de-ideologized diction according to their lifetime achievements relevant to Slovakia.
In addition to the biographies of Slovaks, according to its territorial orientation, the lexicon also includes biographies of Germans, Austrians, Magyars, Czechs and members of other nations, including those of Habsburgs , Hungarian and Ottoman potentates on the ruling level , accumulated by in the 20th century Czech politicians.
literature
- (Ed. :) Na úvod / For escort. In: Biografický lexikón Slovenska IA - B. Martin 2002, pp. 5–8.