BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

North America / Latin America / Western Europe / Eastern Europe / Near East & North Africa / Central Asia / Australia, New Zealand & Oceania

NATIONAL

NORTH AMERICA

United States

American biographical archive (ABA I-III and Supplement).  London and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

American national biography.  New York : Oxford University Press, 2000-

Contemporary Hispanic biography.  Detroit: Gale, 2002-

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Dictionary of Hispanic biography.  Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, c2001-
Coverage from the 15^th century to 1996.

Cyclopedia of American biography.  New York, The Press association compilers, inc., 1915-  . 
(SML Reference E176 A66 1915 (LC))

Dictionary of American biography.  New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1928-58.  Plus all supplements through 1995.
Includes all content of the title since 1928, plus the supplements through 1995.

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Directory of American scholars.  10^th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2001.  6v.

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Notable Asian Americans.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1995

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Notable Black American men.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

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Notable Black American women.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1998-2002.

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Notable Hispanic American women.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1993-1998.

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Notable Native Americans.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.

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Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Millions of records recording birth and death information for U.S. citizens, primarily since 1962.  The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is a database of people whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration beginning about 1962

Who’s who among African Americans.  Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 1999-

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Who’s who of American women. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 1999-
Entries from the first edition (1957) are included in Biography and Genealogy Master Index.

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Who’s who in America.  Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 1999-
Includes all content of the title since 1985, including all of the regional editions as well.  Entries from 1974 to the present are included in Biography and Genealogy Master Index.

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Who was who in America.  Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 1999-
Includes all content of the title since 1985. Entries from the first edition (1607/1943) almost to the present are included in Biography and Genealogy Master Index.

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Canadian biographical archive (CaBA).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (DCB)/Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada en Ligne (DBC)
This online dictionary provides access to the print volumes of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Includes individuals who died (or whose last activity was) between the year 1000 through the early 20th century; it will be updated as new print volumes are published.

Memorable Canadians / Canadiens et Canadiennes inoubliables
Memorable Canadians is a Web-based biographical index available through the National Library of Canada's Web site. At the moment, selection criteria for inclusion is confined to biographies appearing elsewhere on the National Library of Canada's website. Memorable Canadians provides quick and direct access to biographical information on important Canadians who have contributed to the Canadian cultural landscape.

LATIN AMERICA

Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica

Notable twentieth-century Latin American women : a biographical dictionary / edited by Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and David William Foster.

WESTERN EUROPE

Biographisches Archiv der Antike. Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

 Austria

Wurzbach, Constantin.  Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Osterreich 1856-1891

OnlineBL: Osterreichisches biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950

Biografisch archief van de Benelux (BAB I-II).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Scandinavian Biographical Archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Archives biographiques francaises (ABF I-III).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 609 biographical reference books from the beginning of French civilization to the end of the 20^th century.

Dictionnaire de biographie francaise.  Paris: Letouzey, 1933-<2003>.
(Starr Main Reference Room, CT143 D53 (LC)+ Oversize)
The standard current work of historical biography for France, comparable to the DNB and the DAB.

Fierro, Alfred.  Bibliographie analytique des biographies collectives imprimees de la France contemporaine: 1789-1985.  Geneve: Slatkin, 1986. 
(Starr Main Reference Room, Z5305 F8 F54 (LC))
Not itself a biographical source, but a bibliography of collective biographies: general, by profession, and local/regional.

Who’s who in France: dictionnaire biographique, 1953/54-  Paris: Lafitte, 1953-   Biennial. 
(Latest in Starr Main Reference Room, DC705 A1 W46+ (LC) Oversize)
Includes French persons overseas and French-speaking peoples in African nations.  Text is in French, despite English title.

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (ABD).  Leipzig: Duncker, 1875-1912.  56v.
The outstanding German biographical dictionary, containing long signed articles on persons from the earliest times to the end of the 19^th century.  Does not include living persons.

Online as the Elektronische Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

Neue deutsche Biographie (NDB).  Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1953-<2003>  (In progress)
(Starr Main Reference Room, DD85 N48)
A new work, not merely an update to the ADB.  Both works may contain articles on the same person.

Cumulated index to the ADB and the NDB.

Brockhaus Biografien
About 750 biographies extracted from the 24-volume Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.

Deutsches Biographisches Archiv (DBA I-III).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes over 538 biographical reference books from 1713 to 1999.

Wer ist wer?  Lübeck [etc.] Schmidt Römhild [etc.]  v.11-  1950-  .
(Latest volume in Starr Main Reference Room, DD85 W4)
The standard German who's who.

Italy

Archivio biografico italiano (ABI I-III and Supplement).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Ed. Alberto M. Ghisalberti. Roma: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960-  .   In progress. 
(Starr Main Reference Room, CT1123 D59 (LC))
A scholarly dictionary of national biography with signed biographies of Italians from the 5th century to the present, exclusive of living persons. A bibliography of source material is included for each sketch.

Manzoni, Cesare. Biografica Italica: Saggio Bibliografico di Opere Italiane a Stampa per Servivre alla Biografi degli Italiani. Osnabruck: Biblio Verlag, 1981.
(Starr Main Reference Room, Z5305 I8 +M36 1981(LC))
A bibliography of general biographical dictionaries and works of collective biography, volumes of local and regional biography, etc.

Pizzi, Francesco. Italica Gens; repertori a stampa di biografia generale italiana. Cremona: Moschetti, 1934. 
(SML, Stacks  X627 934p)
A bibliography of 1,238 biographical works in three parts: (1)general; (2)arranged by locality; and (3)arranged by subject. 

Who's Who In Italy. 1957/58- Milan: Intercontinental Book, 1958-
SML Stacks DG578 W46 [Latest volume in Reference]

Biografisch archief van de Benelux (BAB I-II).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Scandinavian Biographical Archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica (ABEPI I-III).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
For the call numbers of the associated microfiche collections, see under Other Versions on the database information page.

Diaz, Nicomedes Pastor. Galeria de espanoles celebres contemporaneos. O Biografias u retratos de todos los personages distinguidos de nuestros dias en las ciencias, en la politica, en las armas, en las letras y en las artes. Madrid, 1852-. 2v.
(SML, Stacks Bn29 5)

Sanchez Cobos, Francisco. Diccionario biografico de personajes historicos del siglo 20 espanol. Madrid : Rubinos 1860, 2001. 
(SML,Stacks DP235 S26X 2001)

Who's who in Spain. 1st ed. [Montreal] Intercontinental Book and Pub. Co. 1963-
SML DP271 A2 W49 [latest volume in Reference]

Scandinavian Biographical Archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

British biographical archive (BBA I-II).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 592 biographical reference books published between 1607 and the end of the 20^th century.

Boase, Frederic.  Modern English biography:  containing many thousand concise memoirs of person who have died since 1850.  Truro: Netherton, 1892-1921.  6v.
Good for minor 19^th century names which are not included in the DNB.

Debrett’s people of today.  Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, c2001-

KnowUK.  Cambridge, U.K. : Chadwyck-Healey, 2000-

List of sources indexed.

Oxford dictionary of national biography.  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004-
THE national biography of Great Britain.

Who was who.           
Includes entries from all editions of this work since 1897.

Who’s who.
Includes entries from the current edition of the title only.  Entries from earlier editions are found in Who was who.

Baltisches biographisches Archiv.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Biographisches Archiv der Sowjetunion. Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes biographical reference books from 1917 to 1991.

Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Sudosteuropas.  Munchen: Oldenburg, 1970-81.  4v. 
(SML, Stacks, Yale class, Bp2 13 75:1-4)
Includes Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Turkey, and areas of the Ottoman Empire for all periods before 1945.

Cesky biograficky archiv a Slovensky biograficky archiv.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Griechisches biographisches Archiv (GBA).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 90 biographical reference books published between 1677 and 1996.

Polskie archiwum biograficzne (I-II and Supplement).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Russisches biographisches Archiv (RBA).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 162 biographical reference books covering from the beginning of Russian history to 1917, published between 1827 and 1995.

Sudosteuropaisches biographisches Archiv.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Ungarisches biographisches Archiv.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004- 

Who’s who in Russia?  Moscow:  Who’s Who Strategic Area, 1998-  . 
(Latest edition in Starr Main Reference Room, CT1203 W466 (LC))

Arabisch-islamisches biographisches Archiv (AIBA I). Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes biographical reference books published between 1858 and 1993 covering the period from the beginning to 1918.

Turkisches biographisches Archiv (TBA).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 157 biographical reference books published between 1836 and 2001.

African biographical archive (AfBA).  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 233 biographical reference books published between 1807 and 1993.

CENTRAL ASIA

SOUTH ASIA

Indian biographical archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 184 biographical reference books published between 1815 and 1995.

Chinese biographical archive (CBA).  Munich and New York:  K.G. Saur, 2004-

Japanese biographical archive (JaBA).  Munich and New York:  K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 76 biographical reference books published between 1646 and 1999.

Korean biographical archive (KBA).  Munich and New York:  K.G. Saur, 2004-

Littrup, Leif.  Reference works for Chinese studies: Biography

South-East Asian biographical archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-
Indexes 184 biographical reference books published between 1850 and 1997.               

Australasian biographical archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Australian biographical archive.  Munich and New York: K.G. Saur, 2004-

Dictionary of New Zealand biography.  Wellington, N.Z. : Allen & Unwin : Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1990-