Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences
The biographical-literary concise dictionary on the history of the exact sciences was founded in 1863 by Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796–1877).
This collection contains places of birth and death, dates, subject areas and other biographical data from natural scientists .
The printed version consists of eight volumes, each with several sub-volumes, which were completed at the end of 2003. It contains around 29,000 biographies of natural scientists (from mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, mineralogy, geology, etc.) and is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag in cooperation with the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . It is currently only sold on DVD .
The title of volumes 5 and 6 (reporting years 1904–1922 and 1923–1931) is biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge , since then biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences .
Band division
- First volume. A-L. 1863 ( digitized ; digitized in the Google book search).
- Second volume. M-Z. 1863 ( digitized ; digitized in the Google book search).
- Third volume (1858 to 1883). 1898 ( digitized version ).
- Fourth volume (covering the years 1883 to the present). 1904: T. 1. AL. ( Digitized ), T. 2. MZ ( digitized ).
- Fifth volume: 1904 to 1922. 1926 ( digitized version ).
- Vol. 6. (1923 to 1931): T. 1. AE. 1936, T. 2. FK. 1937, T. 3. LR. 1938, T. 4. SZ. 1940
- Vol. 7a. (Reporting years 1932 to 1953): T. 1. AE. 1956, T. 2. FK. 1958, T. 3. LR. 1959, T. 4: half of the 1st S-Thor. 1961, T. 4: half of the 2nd Thorb-Z. 1962
- Vol. 7a. Suppl. 1971
- Vol. 7b (reporting years 1932 to 1962): T. 1. AB. 1967, T. 2. CE. 1968, T. 3. F-Hem. 1970, T. 4. Hen-K. 1973, T. 5. LM. 1976, T. 6. NQ. 1980, T. 7. R-Sm. 1985, T. 8. Sn-Vl. 1989, T.8.T.2. Double delivery. T. 9. Vo-Z. 1992
- Vol. 7b. (Suppl.) Bibliography of Periodicals. 1994.
- Vol. 8.T.2. Double delivery 3/4
literature
- H. Kaden: History: 140 years of Poggendorff - the work and its founder , in: Chemistry in our time, Volume 40, 2006, pp. 212–213; doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.200690040