# Scandinavianist
## English
### Alternative forms

* Scandinavist

### Etymology

For the ideology, from Scandinav(ism) +‎ -ist; in the meaning scholar of Scandinavian studies, Scandinavian +‎ -ist with analogy with earlier Romanicist, Germanicist, Anglicist; likely reinforced by German Skandinavist.

### Noun

Scandinavianist (plural Scandinavianists)
* (historical) A supporter of Scandinavianism.
** 1907, H. E. Larsson, “Swedish Literature. During the Period 1865-1890.”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 695:In several songs to Poland Snoilsky gave vent to his sympathy. And finally he dedicates poems full of poetic fervor to Denmark, which was engaged in a war with Germany in 1864-65. Snoilsky was, as nearly all Swedes at the time, a Scandinavianist.
    Synonyms: Scandinavist, Scandinavophile (rare)
* (humanities, jargon) A specialist in Scandinavian studies.
** 1962, Walter Johnson, “Managing Editor's Report”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 34, number 3, →JSTOR, page 213:The lists of new members published regularly in our notes sections do not indicate that very many of the men and women in the field are making determined efforts to increase our membership. Cooperative efforts—say, at the rate of five new members per active Scandinavianist plus our treasurer's fine efforts to increase our library subscriptions—would solve the financial problem.
** 1963, Lee M. Hollander, “Recent Work and Views on the Poetic Edda”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 35, number 2, →JSTOR, page 107:Seip presented arguments of four kinds to prove that this antecedent manuscript was of Norwegian origin. [...] There was an immediate rejoinder from the well-known German Scandinavianist, Hans Kuhn, to the effect that examples of similar Norvagisms could be found also in other Icelandic manuscripts.
** 1964, Svein Øksenholt, “Dagligliv i Danmark i det nittende og tyvende århundrede. Vol. 1, by A. Steensberg [Book Review]”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 36, number 3, →JSTOR, page 249:Although the work does not pretend to be a scholarly contribution per se, it is doubtful that any Scandinavianist could not profit by studying this momentous (à la an Enc. Brit. yearbook in scope) work.
** 1966, Erik Wahlgren, “The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, by R. A. Skelton, T. E. Marston, G. D. Painter, & A. O. Vietor [Book Review]”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 38, number 1, →JSTOR, page 64:What a Scandinavianist, on the other hand, can learn from this book about the history, the manufacture, and the study of maps is no less worthy of remark.
** 1972, George C. Schoolfield, “The Poet's Tongues: Multilingualism in Literature, by Leonard Forster [Book Review]”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 44, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 156-157:Now, the bluff and hearty Scandinavianist will say: "All very well and good, but what does Professor Forster's book have to do with me?" The answer is threefold: 1) Forster reminds us of an important tradition in European literature, of which Scandinavia is a part; 2) his bibliographies alone should earn him the gratitude of the literary scholar; and 3) although he says nothing whatsoever about Scandinavia, his book should make the members of our guild reflect upon the Scandinavian situation.
** 1973, Jere Fleck, “Scandinavian Studies and German Department Enrollments”, in Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 68:And finally, the instructor, unless he happens to be a Scandinavianist by training or by birth, must devote much of a summer to developing sufficient reading skill to stay at least several jumps ahead of the best students in his class. Byt as most Germanic philologists have already noticed, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are very easy to handle if no more than competent reading skill is required.
** 2019, Julie K Allen, “Georg Brandes in Berlin: Marketing the Modern Breakthrough in Wilhelmine Germany.”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 91, number 4, →DOI, page 469:German Scandinavianist Klaus Bohnen asserts that German naturalism would have developed very differently without Brandes' introduction of the works of, among others, Ibsen, Taine, Zola, and Tolstoy to Germany, to say nothing of how seminal an impact Brandes had on German literary history by introduction, for example, Viennese writers to J. P. Jacobsen's work, and Friedrich Nietzsche to the writings of Kierkegaard.
    Synonym: Scandinavist

### Adjective

Scandinavianist (not comparable)
* (chiefly historical) Pertaining to Scandinavianism.
** 1970, H. Arnold Barton, “The Swedish Succession Crises of 1809 and 1810, and the Question of Scandinavian Union”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 42, number 3, →JSTOR, page 322:Frederik VI and most Danes accepted the election of Christian August with fairly good grace. Yet even the Prince's opponents considered Scandinavianist solutions as well.
** 1975, Toivo Miljan, “Problems of Nordic Integration.”, in International Journal, volume 30, number 4, →DOI, page 719:The reaction of Danish Scandinavianist and business circles was to pressure their government for the formation of a Danish-Swedish customs union which Norway coud join later.
** 2021, Anna Källén, Johan Hegardt, “The Archaeologist In-Between: Olov Janse, 1892–1985”, in Between France and Sweden (1919–1929), Kriterium, →JSTOR, page 71 (4):In Sweden, the dissolution of the union with Norway in 1905, combined with awakening Scandinavianist political sentiments, contributed to an inward focus on the Swedish nation.
* (humanities, jargon) Pertaining to Scandinavian studies.
** 1975, Donald E. Askey, Gene G. Gage, Robert T. Rovinsky, “The Humanities”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 47, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 151-152:Holders of an M.A. degree who entered the title of their thesis will find that it has been listed, as there is no reason to believe that such research is without interest for the general North American Scandinavist community.

### Related terms

* Pan-Scandinavianism
* Scandinavia
* Scandinavian
* Scandinavianism
* Scandinavian studies
* Scandinavophile
* Scandophile

### Further reading

* Scandinavist, Scandinavianist at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.