# Scandinavist
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

Scandinavist (plural Scandinavists)
* (historical) Alternative form of Scandinavianist (“supporter of Scandinavism”)
** 2009, Eirik Vassenden, “Norway: The Province and its Metropolities”, in Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume 3, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 658:But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.
* (humanities, jargon) Alternative form of Scandinavianist (“specialist in Scandinavian studies”)
** 1937, A. J. Uppvall, “The Study of Scandinavian Languages and LIteratures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1895-1935: A Retrospect and a Prospect”, in Scandinavian Studies and Notes, volume 14, number 7, →JSTOR, page 179:But his successor, Dr. Daniel B. Shumway, Professor of Germanic Philology and head of the German department, was just as staunch a Scandinavist as his predecessor.
** 1947, L. M. Hollander, “Huskult og Hinsidighetstro. Nye Studier over Fedrekult i Norge, by E. Birkeli [Book Review]”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 46, number 2, →JSTOR, page 212:Your reviewer, being more particularly a Scandinavist, would like to add a few details from his own field.
** 1982, Laurie Thompson, “Literature”, in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 44, →JSTOR, page 1087:The old editions are no longer adequate, and this handsome volume should replace its predecessors on the shelves of every Scandinavist and all libraries with a Scandinavian or drama section.
** 1997, Rolf H, Jr Bremmer, “The Germanic Context of "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" Revisited”, in Neophilologus, volume 81, number 3, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, page 446:Basing his analysis on the work of the famous Danish Scandinavist, Axel Olrik, McTurk concluded that it is not so much the general style of “Cynewulf and Cyneheard” which bears the stamp of orality, as its frequently obeying the laws which Olrik had formulated with respect to the unilinear progression of oral narrative.
** 1998, Edgar C Polome, “Norsk Referanse-Grammatik, edited by Jan Terje Faarlund, et al. [Book Review]”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 26, number 3/4, Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, →ISSN, page 500:All together, it is an outstanding work of reference, which every Scandinavist will want to have on his/her worktable.
** 1998, Andrei Rogachevskii, “Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honour of Jostein Bortnes, edited by Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ingunn Lunde. [Book Review]”, in Europe-Asia Studies, volume 50, number 5, Abingdon, →ISSN, page 931:Twenty-eight contributors from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA (one classical scholar, one Scandinavist and one Byzantinologist among them) presented the Russianist from the University of Bergen (Norway) with their essays on Russian folklore, medieval Russian literature, Gogol, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Pasternak and Bakhtin, as well as on other related cultural topics.
** 2021, Bagdagul N Zhanibekova, Beisenova, Zhainagul S, “Anuar Alimzhanov’s Aesthetic Position and its Artistic Realization”, in International Journal of Society, Culture & Language‎, volume 9, number 2, Raleigh: International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-04-19, page 205:The Soviet philologist, Scandinavist Mikhail Steblin-Kamensky noted that “myth is not a genre, an indefinite form, but a content, as if independent of the form in which it is expressed. [...]"

### Adjective

Scandinavist (not comparable)
* (chiefly historical) Pertaining to Scandinavism. [from 20th c.]
** 1919, Stockholm Office, European Bureau, Standard Statistics Co., “Scandinavian Cooperation”, in Standard Daily Trade Service, volume 9, Standard Statistics Company, page 145:The "Scandinavist" movement aiming at greater intimacy between the three northern countries, made great progress during the war along political, scientific, and cultural lines and "Scandinavist" Congresses were held in each of the three capitals.
** 1956, L. F. Smith, “The Language Debate in Norway”, in Books Abroad, volume 30, number 2, →DOI, page 169:[The mål question] arose at a time when the Union with Sweden was already being severely criticized in Norway and it continued during the Scandinavist movement, which politically failed when neither Norway nor Sweden was willing to aid Denmark against Prussia and Austria in 1864.
** 2013, Nathalie Blanc-Noel, “Resolving the dilemma between equality and liberty: the Swedish political system”, in Eastern Journal of European Studies‎, volume 4, number 1, Iasi: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, →ISSN:Another common stereotype links this characteristic to modern socialism, but actually, it dates back to monarchy, was endorsed by the Scandinavist movement in the 19th century and was naturally included in the social-democrat discourse in the 20th century.
** 2019, Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli, Szilvia Gyimóth, editors, The Nordic Wave in Place Branding: Poetics, Practices, Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 184:Here we see the pan-national or Scandinavist scope of the New Nordic Food Movement, which invites a new theory for understanding nationalism.
** 2021, Jani Marjanen, Johan Strang, Mary Hilson, editors, Contesting Nordicness: From Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand (Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History), volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 147:Celebrating the establishment of the NC [Nordic Council], Hans Hedtoft argued that the Scandinavist movement had an unfortunately poor reputation as it was remembered particularly for its failure to produce a united Scandinavian kingdom or a more formal union.
* (humanities, jargon) Pertaining to Scandinavian studies.
** 1975, Elias Bredsdorff, editor, Scandinavica, volume 14, Academic Press, page 99:With him the pendulum is swinging away from the Germanist-Scandinavist tradition of the older generation as it is doing also in the University of Surrey [...]
** 1998, Anne-Marie Andreasson, “Orthographic Codes and Code-Switching: A Study in 16th Century Swedish Orthography, by Alexander Zheltukhin [Book Review]”, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 97, number 4, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, →ISSN, page 614:The study will, of course, be valuable reading for those interested in Swedish orthography, and for the Scandinavist scholar, but certainly not only for them.
** 2022, Roland Scheel, “Scandinavian Studies in Germany”, in Humanities, volume 11, number 4, Basel: MDPI, →DOI, page 88 (4):Nevertheless, despite the continuity in staff, the new structures resulted in increased attention being paid to modern Scandinavian literature, which accompanied the establishment of Scandinavist curricula.

### Related terms

* Scandinavia
* Scandinavian
* Scandinaviansm
* Scandinavian studies