Article: Dictionary of German Biography (DGB).(Book Review)

Editors in Chief: Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus [vol 2 Bohacz-Dzondi] Munich KG Saur 2000. xxviii 727p (text in double columns) ISBN 3 598 23290 6 E229.00

This work, an English translation of the German Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopadie in ten volumes and two supplementary volumes, is obviously an essential acquisition for any research or reference library. Its coverage provides information about many minor figures (mediaeval theologians and churchmen, rulers and nobles, merchants, scholars, musicians and composers) who may not be readily found in other English-language reference works. With regard to major figures who would be also found in ...

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