Deutsche Biographie

German biographical reference work

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Deutsche Biographie (English: German Biography) is a German-language online biographical dictionary. It published thus far information about more than 730,000 individuals and families (2016).^[1] All entries are linked to the Integrated Authority File (GND).

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