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This speech approaches biographies as a source for studies on intellectual history. First, it briefly reviews, via an example, what new digital history tools, such as the semantic web, can provide for the pursuit of institutional history. Secondly, it discusses how biographies are usually about the elite: the richest, most powerful, best educated, or most thoroughly trained groups of a society. On the other hand, in addition to biographies, autobiographies are also a core body of data in writing and analysing the histories of universities, associations, companies, organizations, philanthropic institutions, or other prosopography clusters. By combining these kinds of writings, we may be able to reveal the lives that lie between the private and public spheres.