Information on the authors

The corpus features information on the authors: year of birth, gender, and region(s), where the author was born, studied at a university and/or lived for more for than ten years.

To search the texts of a given author please select his name on the search page in the menu

DOC.AUTHOR

To search only the texts written by the authors of a certain age please specify by the DOC.BORN attribute their year of birth or a timespan (you can specify 1912|1913|1914 for 1912-1914 or 198.* for 1980-1989).

To search only texts by women or men you can select the author’s gender — DOC.SEX:

M          male

F           female

The regional affiliation of a text is tagged according to the author (except for the texts of the regional media).

The full information may not be available for all the authors.

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