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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB;German:Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.[1]
It was published by the Historical Commission of theBavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed inLeipzig by Duncker & Humblot. The ADB contains biographies of about 26,500 people who died before 1900 and lived in the German languageSprachraum of their time, including people from the Netherlands before 1648.[1]
Its successor, theNeue Deutsche Biographie, was started in 1953 and is planned to be finished in 2023. The index and full-text articles of ADB and NDB are freely available online via the websiteGerman Biography (Deutsche Biographie).
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