Epoch biography
An epoch biography is a biographical reference work that restricts the selection of the people portrayed to a historical period, for example a certain epoch or period. A uniform national biography can be replaced by a group of epoch biographies for nations whose history shows a strong periodization, an example of this is China, where most biographical reference works are limited to certain epochs (examples: Herbert Franke: Sung biographies. Wiesbaden 1976 ; L. Carrington Goodrich: Dictionary of Ming biography. New York 1976).
An epoch biography usually forms an intersection between a period of time and one or more other characteristics, such as the above-mentioned combination of epoch and national biography or combinations of epoch, regional and group biography (example: Jürgen Mittag: The Württemberg SPD in the Weimar Republic . Vierow near Greifswald 1997).
literature
- Klaus Schreiber: Biographische Informationsmittel: Typologie mit Examples: Reviews of 836 general and technical collective biographies from the beginning of the nineties to the end of 1998. Vol. 1: Typologie. ... German Library Institute, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87068-549-2 , pp. 29, 107 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Schreiber: Biographische Informationsmittel . Vol. 1. Berlin 1999, p. 29 and 374 note 2.