Type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information
A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in Who's Who, or deceased people only, in the Dictionary of National Biography). Others are specialized, in that they cover important names in a subject field, such as architecture or engineering.
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A biographicaldictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a...
Polski Słownik Biograficzny (PSB; Polish BiographicalDictionary) is a Polish-language biographicaldictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation...
General BiographicalDictionary may refer to: Alexander Chalmers' General BiographicalDictionary John Gorton's General BiographicalDictionary John Lauris...
The BiographicalDictionary of America, or The Twentieth Century BiographicalDictionary of Notable Americans, was an American biographicaldictionary first...
The New BiographicalDictionary of Film is a reference book written by film critic David Thomson, originally published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd...
The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (Bioguide) is a biographicaldictionary of all present and former members of the United States...
Chambers BiographicalDictionary provides concise descriptions of over 18,000 notable figures from Britain and the rest of the world. It was first published...
The Russian BiographicalDictionary (RBD; Russian: Русский биографический словарь) is a Russian-language biographicaldictionary published by the Russian...
updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering...
The BiographicalDictionary of Ecuador (Spanish: Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador) is a biographicaldictionary in 22 volumes written by Rodolfo Pérez...
The BiographicalDictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland discusses the lives of the people who were concerned with building harbours...
A Short BiographicalDictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849–1910), published in 1910...
An Oriental BiographicalDictionary (original title The Oriental BiographicalDictionary) was an important biographicaldictionary of the Islamic, Persian...
Watkins's BiographicalDictionary was originally published in 1800, with a second edition in 1825, as An Historical Account of the lives, characters and...
The Polish BiographicalDictionary is a compact English–language biographicaldictionary of Polish people, authored by Stanley S. Sokol (1923–2017) and...
BiographicalDictionary of Republican China is a biographicaldictionary in four-volumes, often abbreviated as BDRC or referred to as "Boorman". It was...
War II. Biographical novel Biography in literature List of biographical films Narrative identity#Autobiographical memory "Biopic". Dictionary.com. Bastin...
Dictionary of Music. Unlike some other standard music reference books, The Harvard Dictionary of Music includes no biographical entries. Biographical...
The Biographical Treasury, a dictionary of universal biography (London, 1854) was a reference book written and published by British author Samuel Maunder...
The BiographicalDictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC) is a biographicaldictionary which focuses on the lives of Chinese Christians and foreign Christian...
encyclopedic dictionary typically includes many short listings, arranged alphabetically, and discussing a wide range of topics. Encyclopedic dictionaries can be...
The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is a biographicaldictionary of classical antiquity, edited by William Smith and originally published...
There are a large and ever growing number of biographicaldictionaries of women writers. These works reflect the emergence of women's literature as a...
BiographicalDictionary of the Common Law is a biographicaldictionary concerned with legal biography, edited by A. W. B. Simpson and published in 1984...
The BiographicalDictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 is a reference book by Philip Rees, on leading people in the various far right movements since...