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A biography is a history of a person's life. In a biography you may find birth, marriage, and death information and the names of parents, spouses, children, or other family members. Use information from a biography carefully because it may contain inaccuracies. | |||
Many brief biographies have been gathered and published in collective biographies, sometimes called biographical encyclopedias or biographical dictionaries. These works usually include only biographies of prominent or well-known German citizens. Other collective biographies feature biographies of specific groups of people, such as merchants or students of an academy. | |||
The source below is a collection of 263 important German biographical works published between 1700 and 1910: | |||
*''Deutsches biographisches Archiv = The German Biographical Archive.'' München, Germany: K. G. Saur, 198-? (FHL fiche 6,002,159.) This work, on 1,447 microfiche, refers to about 225,000 eminent Germans. | |||
An index to this collection is listed below: | |||
*Koch, Hans-Albrecht. ''Deutscher Biographischer Index (German biographical index).'' Four Volumes. München, Germany: K. G. Saur, 1986. (FHL book 943 D32k Volume 1-4.) Available on the Internet at: [http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/wbi_en/ www.biblio.tu-bs.de/wbi_en/] | |||
There are several other major collections of German biographies. Listed below are two important collections: | |||
Führende Persönlichkeiten (Leading personalities). See [[Germany Genealogy]]. | |||
*''Neue Deutsche Biographie (New German biography).'' Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot, 1953-. (FHL book 943 D3nd.) The first 16 volumes, published through 1993, include the surnames Aachen to Melanchthon. | |||
Collective biographies at the Family History Library are usually listed in the Place Search of the catalog under: | |||
GERMANY - BIOGRAPHY | |||
GERMANY, [STATE] - BIOGRAPHY | |||
You will also find some biographical information in German encyclopedias. | |||
{{Place|Germany}} | |||
[[Category:Germany|Biography]] | |||