@inbook{79bf57244e134bb6a008ef553254c643,
title = "{"}Creating Science from One's Own Biography{"}: Networks and Clues in the Archival Afterlife of Helmuth Plessner",
abstract = "Over the last few years, the digital management of sources in scientific research has made an impressive improvement. Biographers nowadays can use more and more diverse sources for their work than ever before. Presumably, this development has had a profound impact on the way biographers choose their subjects and the transnational perspective that they use. Biographers are not only able to search for the names that are mentioned in the archive at hand, but also to link these names to other data sources or archives that keep letters or documentation on the subject under scrutiny. I will show how these digital links between various data sources can open new vistas of research. I will illustrate this shift by examining the construction of Nachgeholtes Leben, a biography of the philosopher and sociologist Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985), published in 2006 by the German biographer Carola Dietze.",
author = "David Veltman",
year = "2025",
month = feb,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1163/9789004726710_009",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-72669-7",
series = "Biography Studies",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "157--171",
editor = "David Veltman and Meister, {Daniel R.}",
booktitle = "Biography across the Digitized Globe",
}