Search for dissertations about: "Finno-Ugric languages"

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  2. 11. 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