Verfasserlexikon

The Verfasserlexikon (full title: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters.

Currently in its second fully revised edition, it comprises various encyclopaedic articles and accounts written on individual authors and anonymous works.

The project is based in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich.

The encyclopedia focuses on German literature from the high and late Middle Ages as well as some Latin works from the same period.

[1] The encyclopedias were housed at the University of Würzburg until 2003, when they were transported to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.