The term curriculum vitae means “course of life”, and corresponds to German Lebenslauf, in use since the 18th century. In the 19th century it came to emphasize a description of the course of someone’s life [5] in the sense of a biographical narrative, but also in a formal structure for bureaucratic purposes. As early as the 18th century, Zedler’s Universal-Lexicon insisted: “But for a completely useful description of som…