Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten‐Kalender 2001: Bio‐bibliographisches Verzeichnis deutschspachiger Wissenschaftler der Gegenwart (18 Ausgabe)

This is an admirable work, my only adverse comment on it being whether it is in the right format. Maybe German academics do not move around as much as their colleagues in the UK, but in the electronic age, is the printed book really the correct medium for this kind of directory? Horses for courses: would not a regularly updated database be more suitable?

That said, however, this is a nice and easily consulted printed book containing a vast amount of information: 66,582 entries cover all living German‐speaking academics, 12,000 of them new to this edition, which seems to make...