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Arts

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Erarbeitet, redigiert und herausgegeben von Günter Meissner und einem edaktionskollektiv unter internationaler Mitwirkung. Leipzig : VEB E. A. Seeman, 1983-<2004>
Art and Architecture, Reference, Biography, N40 A55 (LC)
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, N40 A55 (LC)
British Art Center, Reference Library, N40 A552 1992 (LC)
As of 2005, 43 volumes have been published (vol. 43 covers Fosnes to Francone). This set is an update of:

Thieme, Ulrich. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart; unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des in- und auslandes hrsg. von Dr. Ulrich Thieme und Dr. Felix Becker. Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1907-50. 37 v.
Art and Architecture, Reference, Biography, N40 T45
British Art Center, Reference Library, N40 T45 (LC)
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, N40 T45 (LC)
Beinecke, Reference, N40 T45 (LC)
"The most complete and authoritative dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, etchers and architects. … Includes some artists who were living at the time of compilation." --Sheehy

Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800. By Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press 1973-1993. 16 v.
Beinecke, Reference, PN2597 H55
Music Library, SML, Reference Room, ML 101M, Ref PN2597 H638
SML, Starr Main Reference Room (Non-Circulating), PN2597 H55
Lewis Walpole Library, 769 1973 H537
British Art Center, Reference Library, PN2597 H55 (LC)
Drama, Reference, PN2597 H55 (LC)
Includes "brief biographical notices of all persons who were members of theatrical companies or occasional performers or were patentees or servants of the patent theatres, opera houses, amphitheatres, pleasure gardens, theatrical taverns, music rooms, fair booths, and other places of public entertainment in London and its immediate environs from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 until the end of the season 1799-1800" (preface). Includes cross-references from variant names.

Nungezer, Edwin. A dictionary of actors and of other persons associated with the public representation of plays in England before 1642. New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929.
LSF, C 3 N92
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, PN2597 N85

Labor

Great Britain
Bellamy, Joyce M. Dictionary of labour biography [by] Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville. [Clifton] N.J., A. M. Kelley, 1972-(1993) 9 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, HD8393 A1 B45 (LC)
"An ambitious biographical dictionary which intends to include not only the national personalities of the British labor movement but also the activists at the regional and local level. Covers 1790 to the present, but excludes living persons.

Military

Callahan, Edward William. List of officers of the navy of the United States and of the Marine corps, from 1775-1900, comprising a complete register of all present and former commissioned, warranted, and appointed officers of the United States navy, and of the Marine corps, regular and volunteer. Comp. from the official records of the Navy department; ed. by Edward W. Callahan ... New York, L.R. Hamersly & co., 1901.
Beinecke, Reference, V11 U7 C35 (LC)
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, V11 U5 C35 (LC)

Heitman, Francis B. (Francis Bernard). Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1903. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1965. 2 v.
Beinecke, Reference, U11 U5 H6 1965 (LC)

Politics

U.S.
Who's who in American politics. [New York, Bowker]
CCL, Reference, Upper Level, E176 W46 (LC)+ Oversize (latest edition only)
SML, Stacks, LC Classification, E176 W46 (LC)+ Oversize (latest edition in Reference)
Social Science Library, Reference, E176 W46 (LC)+ Oversize (latest edition only)
"Treats individuals currently or recently participating in politics at the local, state, or national level, from the president to mayors of cities with populations over 50,000. ... Also includes lists of presidents and cabinet members, state delegations to Congress, members of the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals, governors and lieutenant governors, state chairmen for the Democratic and Republican parties, and abbreviations." (Sheehy)

Religion

Christianity - General
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2004. (link to http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/)
Available in print: Divinity, Trowbridge Reference Room, BR1700.2 B38
Text in German. Not all entries in the print version are available online. Good for minor figures in European and North American church history.

Gams, Pius Bonifatius. Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae, quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro Apostolo. Ratisbonae, typis et sumtibus G.J. Manz, 1873.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, BX4666 G35 1873 (LC)+ Oversize

Christianity - Great Britain
Cotton, Henry. Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ. The succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies of Ireland. Dublin, Hodges and Smith; London and Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1848-51. 5 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, BX5590 C67 (LC)

Le Neve, John. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, or A calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the chief officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest time to year M.DCC.XV. Oxford, University press, 1854. 3 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, BX5197 L45 1854 (LC)

Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ : the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1915-<2000>
Divinity, Stack Reference, BX9099 S4 1915
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, BX9099 S36 (LC)
Cotton, Le Neve and Scott ("Fasti ecclesiae ...") are Church of England/Church of Scotland only.

Scottish Episcopal clergy, 1689-2000 / [compiled and edited by] David M. Bertie. Edinburgh : T & T Clark, 2000.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, BX5390 .S36X 2000 (LC)

Judaism

General
Jüdisches Biographisches Archiv [microform] / [editor, Hilmar Schmuck]. München : K.G. Saur Verlag, 1994- 661, xxix microfiches
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Fiche B3902

Jüdisches biographisches Archiv II [microform] = Jewish Biographical Archive. Series II (JBA II). [advising editor, Michael Brenner ; editor Hilmar Schmuck]. München : K.G. Saur, [2001]- II/1-II/600, + X Quellenüberichte microfiches
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Fiche B4206

Jüdisches biographisches Archiv. Supplement [microform] = [Jewish biographical archive. Supplement / advising editor, Pinchas Lapide ; editor, Hilmar Schmuck]. München : K.G. Saur Verlag, <[1998?]> 120, vii microfiches
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Fiche B4199

U.S.
The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography / Jacob Rader Marcus, editor ; Judith M. Daniels, associate editor. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1994. 2 v.
Divinity, Trowbridge Reference Room, E184 J5 C653 1994 (LC)
SML, Judaic Studies Reference, Room 335B, E184 J5 C6535 1994 (LC)+ Oversize
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, E184 J5 C6535 1994 (LC)+ Oversize
Approximately 24,000 brief biographies. "By far the largest such biographical dictionary ever undertaken." (Preface)

Islam

General
Arabisch-islamisches biographisches Archiv [microform] : AIBA / [Bearb. Kramme, U. / Urra Muena, Z]. München : K.G. Saur Verlag, [1994?]- <G63, 1-211 > microfiches
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Fiche B3948

Science & Medicine

American men & women of science. New York : R.R. Bowker, c1989-
Kline, Reference, Q141 A5+ Oversize
Medical, Reference, Ref 13 Q141 A54
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Q141 A532+ Oversize (latest edition only)
U.S. and Canadian living scientists.

Dictionary of scientific biography. Charles Coulston Gillispie, editor-in-chief. New York, Scribner [1970]-(1990). 18 v.
Kline, Reference, Q141 G55+ Oversize
Medical/Historical, Reference, Ref 13 Q141 D52+ Oversize
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Q141 D53+ Oversize
Covers scientists from all periods of history, excluding living persons.

A dictionary of scientists [electronic resource]. Abridged and updated ed. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Available online: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t84

Poggendorff, J. C. (Johann Christian). Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Leipzig : J.A. Barth, 1863-
Beinecke, Reference, Z7404 P64 (LC)
Kline, Reference, Z7404 P64 1965
Medical/Historical, Reference, Hist Ref 13 Q141 P63
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z7404 P64 (LC)
"The standard and indispensable work for information about the life and works of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists, and other scientists of all countries." (Sheehy) Text in German.