Search for dissertations about: "Runology"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Runology.

  2. 1. Johan Ihre on the origins and history of the runes : Three Latin dissertations from the mid 18th century

    Author : Krister Östlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical philology - general; Johan Ihre; professor Skytteanus; Neo-Latin; dissertations; scientific and scholarly prose; runology; runic inscriptions; gothicism; Odin; Eddic poems; Icelandic Sagas; Klassiska språk - allmänt; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : Johan Ihre (1707-80),professor Skytteanus, i.e. professor of eloquence and politics, at Uppsala University for 42 years, is considered the most prominent Swedish humanist and philologistof the 18th century. Under his presidency more than 450 dissertations were submitted on a variety of subjects. READ MORE

  4. 2. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650

    Author : Matthew Norris; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bureus; Antiquarianism; History of Scholarship; Runology; History of Writing; Ancient Wisdom;

    Abstract : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. READ MORE