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Metzler Autoren Lexikon : deutschsprachige Dichter und Schriftsteller vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. - Bernd Lutz und Benedikt Jessing, hrsg. 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 3476020134
Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) - / herausgegeben von Walther Killy ; unter Mitarbeit von Dietrich von Engelhardt ... [et al.]. 1995-2003.
ISBN/ISSN: 359823161X- Search for more biographical reference
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Online Biographical Reference Works
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) Biographies of well-known individuals who died before 19000 in the areas of art, culture, science and medicine, law, and politics. Search includes NDB as well.
- AEIOU
The Annotierbare Elektronische Interaktive Österreichische Universal-Information System. Provides culturally relevant information about Austria, including Austrian literary figures. - Britannica Online
- Brockhaus Konversationslexikon - 14. Auflage (1894-1896) 16 vols. Late 19th-century edition.
- The Literary Encyclopedia Scholarly-owned reference encyclopedia which provides 4700 profiles of authors, works and topics (literary, philosophical, historical).
- Meyers Konversationslexikon - 4. Auflage (1885-1892) 19 vols. Major competitor to the Brockhaus encyclopedia until their merger in 1986.
- Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) Only 22 vols of the NDB (Aachen - Schinkel) currently available online. Biographies of well-known individuals who died before 19000 in the areas of art, culture, science and medicine, law, and politics. Search interface includes ADB.
- Oxford Companion to German Literature Covers authors and their major works as well as historical, intellectual and cultural periods of German-speaking countries from 8th century to mid-1990s.
- Zedlers Grosses Universal-Lexikon Major 18th century German encyclopedia.
- OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE WORKS
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