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Real Academia de la Historia

In 2011 the Academy published the first 20 volumes of a dictionary of national biography, the Diccionario Biográfico Español, to which some five thousand historians contributed.


An Oriental Biographical Dictionary

An Oriental Biographical Dictionary (original title The Oriental Biographical Dictionary) was an important biographical dictionary of the Islamic, Persian and Indian worlds by Thomas William Beale, published posthumously by The Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1881.


see also

Adolf Robinson

Randel, Don Michael, The Harvard biographical dictionary of music, Harvard University Press, 1996.

Al al-Din

This article incorporates material from Herbert Giles's A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (London: Arthur Probsthain, 1898), which is now in the public domain.

Alexander Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary

The General Biographical Dictionary is a bestselling book compiled by British author Alexander Chalmers.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians is a major reference originally compiled in 1900 by Theodore Baker, PhD, and published by G. Schirmer Inc. The publication is now in its ninth edition.

Bejam

Adrian Room, Corporate Eponymy: A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names, Page 17, McFarland & Co, 1992, ISBN 0-89950-679-8

Carl Stamitz

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.

Elmer Bendiner

Among his better-known works are The Rise and Fall of Paradise (a history of al-Andalus), A Time for Angels: A Tragicomic History of the League of Nations, The Bowery Man, The Virgin Diplomats, Biographical Dictionary of Medicine (cowritten with his daughter Jessica), and The Fall of Fortresses.

Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker

Hughes, Rupert (1903) "Rauchenecker, Georg Wilhelm" in The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Mc.

Baker, Theodore (1900) A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, G. Schirmer, New York

George Edmund Byron Bettesworth

Rose, Hugh James, Henry John Rose, Thomas Wright (1857) A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 4.

Harold Shapero

In his teens he some of his teachers included Nicolas Slonimsky (editor of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians) in 1936 and Ernst Krenek in 1937 (Tommasini 2013).

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Biographical information may be found in a companion volume, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, published in 1996, which contains approximately 5500 entries.

Heniot Levy

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition, revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Schirmer Books, 1984

Henry Mackenzie

British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.

John Lauris Blake's General Biographical Dictionary

The General Biographical Dictionary was a book written by American clergyman John Lauris Blake.

John Thorpe

H .M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997) ISBN 0-300-07207-4

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler's writing has been published in Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, The James Joyce Quarterly, The New Hibernia Review, SIAR: The Journal of the Western Institute of Irish Studies, The South Atlantic Review, The Biographical Dictionary of Southern Writers, The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, and Performing the Crossroads: Critical Essays in Performance Studies and Irish Culture.

Michael Lort

Some of his manuscript lives were used by Alexander Chalmers in his ‘Biographical Dictionary.’ James Granger obtained his aid in his portrait-dictionary, he assisted John Nichols in the Gentleman's Magazine and in other undertakings, and he contributed to Archæologia.

OBL

Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950, a biographical dictionary of individuals who've contributed to the history of Austria

Paul Colomiès

He is best known for his work Gallia Orientalis, a biographical dictionary of French Christian Hebraists.

Who's Who in Tudor England 1485-1603

Who's Who in Tudor England 1485-1603, a biographical dictionary by C.R.N. Routh.

William Beloe

He successively brought out translations of Coluthus, Alciphron, in which he was assisted by the Rev. T. Monro, Herodotus, and Aulus Gellius, the preface to which was written by Parr; and co-operated in Tooke's ‘Biographical Dictionary,’ published (1795) three volumes of miscellanies, and in 1793 established, in conjunction with Archdeacon Nares, the British Critic, the first forty-two volumes of which were partly edited by him.