A Survey of Historical Works on Pandemics in the German Language

: The paper gives a brief overview of the historiography of infectious diseases published in German between 1792 and 2021, the majority of which was published after 1949. 3502 titles (articles and books) were selected from several printed bibliographies and online catalogues (for full data set, see https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7096887). 71.1% of the titles are from West or Unified Germany, 5.6% from the GDR (1945-89), 13.8% from Austria and 8.4% from Switzerland. More than 40% cover the modern period, followed by the early modern period. The historiographical approaches represented by the titles are outlined, the themes addressed are mapped and the diseases covered are analysed. The approaches include all the major trends in the history of medicine, from biographies and the