BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Two Years for a single Bibliography Entry

[whirlwindmind]

Hi there,

this is my first entry, so please be patient – and many thanks in advance for that.

I am writing an article on a historical subject, and would like to include the year of first publication in addition to the year of the publication I use. For example: Locke (1690/2008)

If I simply write "1690/2008" into my BibTeX file, nothing changes. All I get in my document is "Locke (2008)".

Any ideas how to fix this?

[whirlwindmind]

A small addition:
Writing {1690/2008} into the year-entry of my bibtex file (call it locke1690) does not give the result "Locke (1690/2008)" if I type cite{locke1690}.

Any more ideas?

[molipoli]

I was also looking for an answer to this question. A shame no-one answered.

[whirlwindmind]

Okay, I put this up once more. Still no answer? Anybody?

[Johannes_B]

Using the modern biblatex one can easily do it:
Found on TeX.SX

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[
	%style=verbose
	style=authoryear
]{biblatex}

\renewbibmacro*{date}{%
  \printdate
  \iffieldundef{origyear}{%
  }{%
    \setunit*{\addspace}%
    \printtext[parens]{\printorigdate}%
  }%
}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{kullback:reprint,
  author       = {Kullback, Solomon},
  title        = {Information Theory and Statistics},
  year         = 1997,
  publisher    = {Dover Publications},
  location     = {New York},
  origyear     = 1959,
  origpublisher= {John Wiley \& Sons},
  langid       = {english},
  langidopts   = {variant=american},
  annotation   = {A reprint of the \texttt{kullback} entry. Note the format of
                  \texttt{origyear} and \texttt{origpublisher}. These fields are
                  not used by the standard bibliography styles},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
\cite{kullback:reprint}

\printbibliography

\end{document}