German Biographical Archive

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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

Individual evidence

  1. Form of citation in entries of the DNB / GND