Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

Author	Prof W. H. Oliver (ed.) 1983–1990 Dr Claudia Orange (ed.) 1990–2003 1,239 individual contributors
Country	New Zealand
Language	English, Māori
Subject	New Zealand biography
Genre	Encyclopedia
Publisher	various
Publication date	1990–2000
Media type	5 volumes; also available on-line

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (DNZB) is an encyclopedia or biographical dictionary containing biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders. It was first published as a series of print volumes from 1990 to 2000, went online in 2002, and is now a part of Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.^[1] The dictionary superseded An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand of 1966, which had 900 biographies. The dictionary is managed by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage of the New Zealand Government. An earlier work of the same name in two volumes containing 2,250 entries, published in 1940 by Guy Scholefield with government assistance, is unrelated.