Search for dissertations about: "Baltic-Finns"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word Baltic-Finns.

2. 1. Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region

   Author : Kristian Nilsson; Centrum för Europaforskning; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Comparative-historical linguistics; Baltic-Finns; Scandinavians; ethnohistory; conceptual history; intellectual history; the Nordic region;

   Abstract : The study investigates how the early nineteenth century invention of comparative-historical linguistics affected European ethnohistoric thought, and how this process altered ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the discipline histories of Finno-Ugric studies, linguistics and the larger field of intellectual history. READ MORE