* Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab ( The Man Who Gave Hitler His Ideas ), Wilfried Daim's biography of Lanz von Liebenfels

Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a postcard entitled Der Berggeist (), and on the paper cover in which he kept it, he wrote " the origin of Gandalf ".

However, in her new 1912 biography Der junge Nietzsche, Elisabeth did not repeat her enthusiastic support for Scharlitt's conjectures – perhaps they had become inopportune in rising German nationalism.

A biography of Der Ling, " Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling ," by Grant Hayter-Menzies, was published in January 2008 by Hong Kong University Press.

He has published a biography of his father and grandfather in Yiddish entitled Der Heyliger Rebbi fun Biala: Tiferes Avos.

Haines's life story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann, and his designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.

In his 2003 biography, former member of Manfred Mann's earlier Manfred Mann Band and Beatles-associate Klaus Voormann alleged to have inspired Mann for the Earth Band's name by having besought Mann several times throughout the 1960s that Mann's soft pop style of those days had to become more " earthier " and rockier, not least of all because of the seemingly effeminate image of Mann's earlier band which had led to a number of close encounters with violence particularly in Ireland.

As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part: " Mann and Weil ... went from epic ballads (“ On Broadway ,” “ You ’ ve Lost That Lovin ’ Feelin ’”) to outright rockers (“ Kicks ,” “ We ’ ve Gotta Get Out of This Place ”) they also placed an emphasis on meaningful lyrics in their songwriting.

* From Lads to Lord's – biography of Sir Horace Mann

He is noted for his biography of Thomas Mann, and has also won a Grammy Award.

Some images are motivated by the biography of the person depicted, but some designs just draw their motif from the poet's name ( thus, Dietmar is shown riding a mule, since his name can be interpreted as meaning people's horse ), while others draw on imagery from their lyrics ( Walther von der Vogelweide is shown in a thoughtful pose which exactly matches the description of himself in one of his most famous songs ).

* ALCUIN-Regensburger Infothek der Scholastik-Huge database with information on biography, text chronology, editions.

* Frans Hals biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen ( 1718 ) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

* In the 1956 essay Hamlet oder Hekuba: der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel ( Hamlet or Hecuba: the Irruption of Time into the Play ), the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt suggests that elements of the Earl's biography, in particular his final days and last words, were incorporated into William Shakespeare's Hamlet at both the level of dialogue and the level of characterization.

His biography was written ( in Dutch ) by his pupil Bakhuizen van der Brink ( 1865 ); for an appreciation of his services to classical literature see L Müller, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Nederlanden ( 1869 ).

His editions and biography of Zoega, his Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Auslegung der alten Kunst ( Göttingen, 1817, 8 ) and his Alte Denkmäler ( 5 vols., 1849 – 1864 ) contain his views on ancient art.

Peter Hoffmann's biography of Hitler assassination conspirator Claus Graf von Stauffenberg (" Stauffenberg, A Family History ," 1992 ) indicates that after the failure of Stauffenberg's bomb plot in July 1944, Gisevius went into hiding until January 23, 1945, when he escaped to Switzerland by using a passport that had belonged to Carl Deichmann, a brother-in-law of German Count Helmuth James von Moltke, who was a specialist in international law serving in the legal branch of the Foreign Countries Group of the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ").

Other members of the band claim in the biography " Keine Macht für Niemand-Die Geschichte der Ton Steine Scherben " ( No power for nobody-the story of Clay Stone Shards ") that it is a play on the name of the West German labor union Bau-Steine-Erden ( Construction-Stones-Earths ).

Jean Chardin's life story forms the basis of Dirk Van der Cruysse's 1998 book Chardin le Persan, and of the partly fictionalised 2011 biography, Le Joaillier d ' Ispahan by Danielle Digne.

* Adriaan & Izaak van Ostade biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen ( 1718 ) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

The biography was ready for press at the time of his death and published under the name “ My Storie ”, as told to Amos van der Merwe.

At this time he began work on his authoritative biography of the South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, which appeared in two volumes in 1962 and 1968, and editing for publication, with Jean van der Poel, the first four volumes of the Smuts papers.

* Samuel van Hoogstraten biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen ( 1718 ) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

Jones's Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post ( 2001 ), an authorised but for the most part hostile biography.

# The image is the visually identifies both Laurens van der Post's biography and provides a picture of van der Post in later life.

# Lexicon der Wehrmacht-Ehrler biography ( German )

* Otto Marcelis biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen ( 1718 ) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

* Walther v. Seydlitz-Kurzbach, General der Artillerie, a biography on the website of the Seydlitz family.

* Josef Bürckel-Gauleiter der Westmark Josef Bürckel biography

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

More recently, in his two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, historian Ian Kershaw uses both ' hubris ' and ' nemesis ' as titles.

A recent biography of Heydrich also places the grave in Section A. Hitler wanted Heydrich to have a monumental tomb but, because of Germany's declining fortunes, it was never built.

Historian Paul Schilperoord argued in his 2011 biography of Josef Ganz that Hitler stole the idea for the Volkswagen Beetle from Ganz's " May Bug ," which he saw in 1933 at an auto show.

He spent the remainder of the 1970s working on Hitler's War and the War Path, his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler ; The Trail of the Fox, a biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ; and a series in the Sunday Express describing the Royal Air Force's famous Dam Busters raid.

In 1977 Irving published Hitler's War, the first of his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler.

For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock ( 13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004 ), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.

In 1952, Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Hitler, which he based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials.

While Thyssen was imprisoned in Germany, a biography was published in the United States in 1941 under the title I Paid Hitler.

In his Pulitzer prize winning biography Lindbergh, author A. Scott Berg explains that interventionist propagandists would photograph Lindbergh and other isolationists using this salute from an angle that left out the American flag, so it would be indistinguishable from the Hitler salute to observers.

Joachim Clemens Fest ( 8 December 1926 – 11 September 2006 ) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance.

Joachim Fest was the first German writer of a major Hitler biographyFest then embarked on his most important work, his biography of Adolf Hitler, which was published in 1973: It was the first major Hitler biography since that of Alan Bullock in 1952 and the first by a German writer.

After the success of the Hitler biography Fest was invited to become co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a German newspaper based in Frankfurt am Main and one of the institutions in the German-speaking world.

He is best known for his bestselling biography of Adolf Hitler

For his next film role as Nazi Captain Weber in Captain Corelli's Mandolin ( John Madden, 2001 ), Morrissey researched the Hitler Youth and read Gitta Sereny's biography of Albert Speer, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.