Other Resources
Atlasas and Maps:
- Austrian Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
- Germany Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
- Switzerland Maps – Country, city, historical and thematic maps.
- Liechtenstein Map – A very basic country map.
- Berkeley’s Maps Collection
- Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe from AD 1 - AD 2000
- Institut für europäische Geschichte - Historical Maps from the Institute for European History in Mainz
Biographical Resources:
Neue Deutsche Biographie – Two comprehensive German biographical references (coverage from 1875-present).
Dictionaries:
- PONS – English-German dictionaries from PONS (via Xipolis).
- LEO – Online German-English dictionary from the Technische Universität München.
- Deutsches Wörterbuch – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's classic, started in 1838.
- Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart – Digitized images of Johann Christoph Adelung's 1808 reference work for German (browsable, but not full-text searchable).
- YourDictionary – Online German-English dictionary, plus links to German translation dictionaries in many languages.
- Das Wörterbuch-net - Listing of specialty dictionaries.
Duden Dictionaries:
- Duden: Die deutsche Rechtschreibung - German Orthographic Dictionary
- Duden: Familiennamen - Origin and Meaning of over 20,000 Family Names
- Duden: Geographische Namen in Deutschland – German Toponymy
- Duden: Das Fremdwörterbuch – Dictionary of Foreign Loanwords
- Duden: Lexikon der Vornamen – Lexicon of Given Names
- Duden: Das Herkunftswörterbuch – German Etymological Dictionary
- Duden: Das Synonymwörterbuch – German Thesaurus
- Duden: Richtiges und gutes Deutsch – Practical guide to everyday questions of orthography, grammar, style and register.
- Duden: Das Wörterbuch medizinischer Fachausdrücke - German Medical Dictionary
- Duden: Das große Buch der Zitate und Redewendungen – Dictionary of Quotes and Colloquial Expressions
- Duden: Das Wörterbuch der Abkürzungen – Dictionary of Abbreviations
- Duden: Das große Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache in 10 Bänden – Dictionary focusing on the contemporary German language and the literary language of the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Duden: Deutsches Universalwörterbuch – Dictionary of Contemporary German
- Duden: Das Große Fremdwörterbuch – Comprehensive Dictionary of Foreign Loanwords
- Duden: Das neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen – Dictionary of Jargon
- Duden: Recht A–Z – Dictionary of Legal Terminology.
- Duden: Das Lexikon der Wirtschaft – Dictionary of terminology from business and economics.
Encyclopedias and Lexicons:
- Brockhaus in 15 Bänden - German Encyclopedia.
- Brockhaus Literatur: The authors, works, eras and technical terms of literature.
- Alltagsbrockhaus: Das Lexikon der Alltagsfragen – Practical guide and possible starting point for exploring everyday problems in contemporary Germany.
Older German Typeface and Script:
- BYU German Script Tutorial – Resource for leaning older German script (Fraktur) and handwriting.
- Genwiki – Resource for learning older German script (Fraktur) and handwriting.
- Sütterlinschrift Inhaltsverzeichnis – Resource for leaning older German handwriting.
Miscellaneous:
- Zelder Universal-Lexikon – Digitalized version of the first major German encyclopedia, from the early 18th century.
- Harenberg: Kulturführer Oper – Guide to over 500 operas.
- Harenberg: Kulturführer Schauspiel – Guide to the world of theater.
Last Update: 11 May 10:20

