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''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners who have been active in Poland – famous as well as less well known persons, from Popiel, Piast Kołodziej and Mieszko I, at the dawn of Polish history, to persons who died in the year 2000. The Dictionary, published incrementally since 1935, is a work in progress. It currently covers entries from A to S and its completion is expected about 2030. The ''PSB'' is, by its own assessment, "at present... one of the world's leading biographical publications."〔(słownik biograficzny'' site )〕 Outside Poland, it is available at the British Library, the Library of Congress, the Vatican Library, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, the Getty Museum, and many other national and major research libraries.〔("Find in a Library" )—search page for locating copies of the ''PSB''〕 ==Character== As of August 2014, 48 volumes have been produced, with entries to "''Sz''". The latest installment, fascicle 200, the third of volume 49, covers entries "Szumański, Mieczysław – Szwencki, Fryderyk". The Dictionary's current 47 volumes (well into "''S''") range in length from 480 to 830 pages, for a total of over 28,000. Some 8,000 individuals have contributed to the Dictionary. Most of its contents are available only in paper form. Though not a comprehensive source on ''all'' notable Poles, the Dictionary is substantial and well-respected. Brock et al. write that the "'Polish Biographical Dictionary' is one of the major achievements of the humanities in 20th-century Poland. The entries reflect the multicultural and multiethnic composition of the pre-partition Polish state (). Therefore the dictionary is not 'a biographical dictionary of Poles,' but rather 'a Polish biographical dictionary,' including entries on prominent foreigners who lived in the country as well as representatives of national minorities."〔Peter Brock, John Stanley and Piotr J. Wrobel, ''Nation And History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War''〕 While prewar Polish governments had little influence on Dictionary editorial policies, the postwar communist government of the People's Republic of Poland interfered substantially regarding who should be included.〔Peter Brock, John Stanley and Piotr J. Wrobel, ''Nation And History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War''〕 Since Poland's 1989 break with the Soviet bloc, this bias has been partly corrected in several supplements. ''Polski słownik biograficzny'' constitutes a unique mosaic that depicts the full sweep of Polish history through biographies of many of the country's most notable sons and daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polish Biographical Dictionary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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