Ingetraut dalberg biography books

German philosopher, information scientist and librarian

Ingetraut Dahlberg (20 February 1927 – 24 October 2017) was a German information scientist and philosopher who developed the universal Information Coding Classification covering some 6,500 subject fields.

Her career spanned various roles in research, teaching, editing, and publishing. Dahlberg founded the journal International Classification (now Knowledge Organization) as well as both the scientific Society for Classification (de) and International Society for Knowledge Organization.

Professional career

Early years

The interest of Ingetraut Dahlberg in documentation started when at the age of 10 years when she received a camera from her father at Christmas. She started to document everything she regarded as important.^[1]

Ingetraut Dahlberg lived most of her time in Frankfurt/Main.

She studied Philosophy, History, Anglistics, CatholicTheology, and Biology at the univer