Online edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, covering all subjects.
More than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series. Learn more about this database
German equivalent of Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online. This 15-volume reference work, published in print between 2005 and 2012 by J.B. Metzler is now available online. It offers a multi-faceted view on the decisive era in European history stretching from ca. 1450 to ca. 1850 ce. in over 4,000 entries.
Comprehensive German-language encyclopedia of world literature from the Antiquity to the present. Has summaries and synopses of +13,000 works. Includes biographical sketches.
Over 5100 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics, written by over 2000 specialists from universities around the world. Also lists over 22,000 works by date, country and genre. Covers canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek. Data can be arrayed by date, country and genre.