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Based on over 20,000 articles, the database provides comprehensive
information about literary authors in the German-speaking world from
the Middle Ages to the present:
• Targeted research by names, titles of works, epochs, manuscripts,
places of printing, literature references etc.
• Updated references to all articles at publication and a further
3,500 per year
• Quarterly updates
• Linking to the library collections
• Citability ensured thanks to DOI for each article
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The Verfasser-Datenbank enables, for the first time, the renowned
standard reference works:
• Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters • Deutscher Humanismus 1480-1520• Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620 • Killy-Literaturlexikon
to be used systematically in electronic form.
New articles will be uploaded at the date of publication of the print version. Exclusively, the articles of Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters will be updated continiously.
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Biographie – the German Biography
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