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About the project

The Neue Deutsche Biographie – NDB – NDB-online – Editorial office and departments – Project management – Copyright

The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography)

The Deutsche Biographie (German Biography) is the central historical-biographical information system for the German-speaking world.

As a joint service of the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo) (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) (Bavarian State Library) financed by several grants from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation), it has been offering structured lexical expert knowledge with information more than 1,000,000 personalities (2022) of the German-speaking cultural area from the early Middle Ages to the present day free of charge since 2010.

The core content of the Deutsche Biographie is the retro-digitized full texts of around 50,000 articles fro