Paul Knobel

Who is Paul Knobel?

Paul Knobel is an Australian poet and the author of "An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry and its Reception History", a CD-ROM encyclopedia of 1 million words covering 243 languages and 118 countries and with 6,300 entries. It is believed to be the largest work in the field of male homosexuality compiled by one person. He worked on it for 19 years. The work is now on the internet in a single alphabetical sequence on the web site of Erwin Haeberle of Berlin. The CDROM is in a Filemaker Pro database which allows for more complex searching. Also on the internet is "A World Overview of Male Homosexual Poetry" taken from "An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry and its Reception History". In 2005 he published An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Art, a CD-ROM with 8,500 entries which is a skeleton of a larger work also in a database.

In 2009 he published "Bibliography of Homosexuality: the non-English coerces" and in 2011 two other bibliographies:" Bibliography of Homosexuality 1486 to 1800" and "Bibliography of Homosexuality: 1984—2010". These works supplement the annotated bibliography of Wayne Dynes, "Homosexuality: a research guide" and that of Gary Simes, "A Bibliography of Homosexuality in the University of Sydney Library" to which he contributed many entries. The 3 bibliographies were taken from Worldcat and compiled in the Digital Humanities Laboratory at Columbia University, New York, and can be so used since they are not for profit. They are on the web site of Erwin Haeberle of Berlin