1. Biographical Information
Sources

2. Biography
 It narrates the most important
facts of someone’s life, his or
her childhood, adolescence,
military service, wars he or she
lived through, educational
background, professional life,
marriage, children, and most

3. Biography
 It also tells anecdotes,
memories, trips and dearly
cherished moments. It is our
most precious legacy to the
world and mainly to our
family.

4. Etymology
From Late Greek biographia
“description of life”
 bio- "life"
 graphia- "record, account"

5. D. R. Stuart
 biography excludes "historians'
point of view and home life.“
Plutarch
 biography let him "treat history
as a mirror"

6. Nigel Hamilton
 defines biography as "our
creative and non-fiction output
devoted to recording and
interpreting real lives"

7. Nigel Hamilton
Biography: A Brief History
The book examines
the historical evolution of
biography
 from the ancient world to the present,
 from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the
recent American Splendor,
 from cuneiform to the Internet,
 from commemoration to deconstruction,

8. HISTORY

9. Early biography
Early Middle Ages (AD 400 to
1450)
 Hermits, monks, and priests used
this historic period to write the
first modern biographies.
 Their subjects were usually
restricted to the church
fathers, martyrs, popes, and saints.
 Their works were meant to be

10. Example:
 Life of Charlemagne by his
courtier Einhard.

11. Medieval Islamic Civilization (c.
AD 750 to 1258)
 biographies began to be produced
on a large scale, noteably with the
advent of paper and the beginning
of the Phropetic
biography tradition.
 This led to the introduction of a

12.  The first biographical dictionaries
were written in the Muslim
World from the 9th century
onwards.
 The earliest biographical
dictionaries initially focused on the
lives of the prophets of Islam and
their companions, with one of these

13. Albert Nelson Marquis
 is the American publisher of a
number of directories containing
short biographies.

14. Who’s Who in America
 in 1899 the first edition of the
publication contained concise
biographies of more than
8,500 "distinguished Americans."

15. Who's Who books
List career and
personal data for
each biography,
including :
 birth date and
place  civic activities
 names of parents  awards
and family  political affiliation,
members  religion
 education  addresses.

16. General publications
• Who's Who in • Who's Who in
America Finance and Business
• Who's Who in the • Who's Who in
World American Law
• Who's Who of • Who's Who in
American Women American Politics
• Who's Who in • Who's Who in
Medicine and American Art
Healthcare • Who's Who in
• Who's Who in American Education
Science and • Who's Who in

17. Philippines Who’s Who
 written in 1957 by D. H. Soriano
and
Isidro L. Retizos.
 biographical facts about the lives
of 400 Filipinos and members of
the foreign community whose

18. People Great Lives
Remembered
 about 55 stars, heroes, and icons
that America loved.
Historica’s Women
 1000 years of women in history;
from year 1000 to 20006.
 it represents such a remarkable

19. A Profile of Filipino Women
 a profile of the status and role of
Filipino women in the country’s
development.

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Presented by:
Karina Joyce E. Limbo
Jean Clydee Lachica
BLIS-III