Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950 - Hardcover

The Internationale Germanistenlexikon is an encyclopedia that gives comprehensive information about the biography, research interests and publications of nearly 1500 scholars concerned with the German language and literature around the world. The contributions were written by 700 scientists from all over the world. This encyclopedia will be a standard work for all investigations dealing with the history of German humanities and a key to important data of cultural history. The print edition is complemented by a CD-ROM that offers additional content and the opportunity to search quickly for details like the different poets a scholar dealt with, memberships in literary societies, the libraries which manage the scientific/letter estate and so on. System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT 4.0/XP 80486 processor (Pentium recommended) Minimum 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended) Minimum 18 MB free diskspace (cd drive) Minimum 40 MB free diskspace (full installation) The International Directory of Germanists 1800 - 1950 finds attentive readers. Their comments, corrections and additions, which deserve a wider readership, are published by the editor, Christoph Konig in the journal "Geschichte der Germanistik. Mitteilungen." The new feature "Das aktuelle Lexikon" (The updated directory) keeps a running record of relevant new information. It is intended for all owners and users of the Internationale Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Those interested in the journal are requested to contact the Wallstein-Verlag (Gottingen) or to write to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Arbeitsstelle fur die Erforschung der Geschichte der Germanistik, Postfach 1162, 71666 Marbach am Neckar; E-Mail: magg@dla-marbach.de

Christoph Konig is Director of the Department for Research into the History of German Studies at the German Literary Archive in Marbach and teaches at the University of Stuttgart. Birgit Wagenbaur was on the academic staff of the German Literary Archive in the Department for Research into the History of German Studies from 1995 until 2002.