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==Purpose==
Template for web links to [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] (NDB) articles, as used on German Wikipedia for over 6000 articles of the more than 21,000 NDB biographies that have been published, with 3,5200 further articles expected to be added in four further volumes until 2017.

==Usage==
Standard unnamed parameters as used in the German original:
<pre>*{{NDB|Vol|Start page|End page|Biographed person|Author of biography|PND number}}</pre>

Additional named parameters (see the {{tlx|citation}} documentation for more details)
 |separator=''defaults to the value in {{tlx|citation}}'' — it can be altered to another value
 |postscript''defaults to the value in {{tlx|citation}}'' — it can be altered to another value
 |ref=either defaults to ''Author of biography, year'' or if the unnamed "Author" (parameter 5)
      is not set it defaults to ''NBD, year'' — like the other parameters the default values
                           can be overridden (which can be useful when used with {{tlx|harv}}
                           templates (see [[Template:Sfn#More than one work in a year|more than one work in a year]]). 
 |year=''defaults to a value set by the unnamed Vol (parameter 2). — it can be altered to
                           another value, which is sometimes useful in combination with the
                           parameter and value ref=harv.

==Example==
<code><nowiki>{{NDB|13|656|657|Lasker, Eduard|Klaus Erich Pollmann|118569848}}</nowiki></code>

produces:

{{NDB|13|656|657|Lasker, Eduard|Klaus Erich Pollmann|118569848}}

== Usage notes ==
The template does not include an item bullet and so is easy to use in a footnote citation.  In a list, the template should be preceded by an asterisk, as specified in the usage section above.

== See also ==
* {{tl|De-ADB}}
* [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]

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