Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (literally New German Biography) is a biographical reference work published in German language by the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin. It is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Its first volume, alphabetically covering names from "Aachen" to "Behaim", was published in 1953. The currently most recent volume is the 23rd, covering names from "Schinzel" to "Schwarz", and was published in July 2007. So far, more than 20,300 biographies of individuals and families have been published. 4,200 further articles are expected to be added in five further volumes, with completion in 2017.

An NDB article usually contains genealogical information such as date and place of birth, date and place of death, parents, marriages, divorces, number of children, alternate and birth names, academic degrees, a curriculum vitae in whole sentences, a valuation of the subject's political, economic, social, scientific, technical or artistic achievements and a bibliography. Only deceased persons with a close relation to the German language area are recorded. Each individual article is signed by its author. The average length of an article is ¾ of a page. An index cataloguing all articles and the full text of articles in the first 22 volumes, covering names from "Aachen" to "Schinkel", are freely available on-line.

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• Neue deutsche Biographie / herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 1953. ISBN 3-428-00181-8.

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1. Aachen – Behaim. 1953, reprint 1971 2. Behaim – Bürkel. 1955, reprint 1971 3. Bürklein – Ditmar. 1957, reprint 1971 4. Dittel – Falck. 1959, reprint 1971 5. Falck - Fyner (voran: Faistenberger). 1961, reprint 1971 6. Gaál – Grasmann. 1964, reprint 1971 7. Grassauer – Hartmann. 1966 8. Hartmann – Heske. 1969 9. Heß – Hüttig. 1972 10. Hufeland – Kaffsack. 1974 11. Kafka – Kleinfercher. 1977 12. Kleinhans – Kreling. 1980 13. Krell – Laven. 1982 14. Laverrenz - Locher-Freuler. 1985

15. Locherer - Maltza(h)n. 1987 ISBN 3-428-00196-6 16. Maly – Melanchthon. 1990 ISBN 3-428-00197-4 17. Melander – Moller. 1994 ISBN 3-428-00198-2 18. Moller – Nausea. 1997 ISBN 3-428-00199-0 19. Nauwach – Pagel. 1999 ISBN 3-428-00200-8 20. Pagenstecher – Püterich. 2001 ISBN 3-428-00201-6 21. Pütter – Rohlfs. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM. 2003 ISBN 3-428-11202-4 22. Rohmer – Schinkel. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, second edition. 2005 ISBN 3-428-11203-2 23. Schinzel - Schwarz. Mit ADB & NDB-Gesamtregister auf CD-ROM, third edition. 2007 ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3.

[edit] External links

• Neue Deutsche Biographie
• ADB & NDB index
• Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Munich Digitisation Centre, Digital Library department of the Bavarian State Library