German Biographical Archive
The German Biographical Archive (DBA or DbA) is a collection of articles from biographical reference works from the 18th to 20th centuries initiated by Verlag KG Saur .
history
The microfiche edition produced by retro- accumulation was published from 1982 to 1985 on 1,447 fiches. The DBA I contains 480,000 biographical articles on 213,000 people from 264 reference works from 1700 to 1910. In 1986 a printed index appeared as the German Biographical Index .
The DBA was continued from 1989–1993 with a new sequence ( DBA New Sequence or DBA II ). A third series with biographical articles from reference works from 1960 to 1999 has been published since 1999 ( DBA III ).
The DBA is in the form of facsimile - digitized within the framework of the biographical information system World Biographical Information System Online chargeable accessible (WBIS Online). In the context of the WBIS national license acquired by the DFG , the DBA is not freely available to the public, but the database edition can be consulted within selected state and university libraries.
Web links
- Information from Augsburg University Library
- German Biographical Archive (DbA) in the catalog of the German National Library ( DNB 017548705 )