Editor Ferdinand Hoefer | ||
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Similar Grand dictionnaire universel, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Dictionary of National Biography, Neue Deutsche Biographie | ||
The Nouvelle Biographie Générale ("New General Biography"), was a 46-volume, French-language, biographical reference work, compiled between 1852 and 1866 by Ferdinand Hoefer, French physician and lexicographer.
The first nine volumes were entitled Nouvelle Biographie Universelle ("New Universal Biography").
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