Scandinavianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scandinavianists
form: 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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: (rare)
synonyms: Scandinavist
Scandinavophile
glosses: A supporter of Scandinavianism.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1962, Walter Johnson, “Managing Editor's Report”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 34, number 3, →JSTOR, page 213:
text: 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.
ref: 1963, Lee M. Hollander, “Recent Work and Views on the Poetic Edda”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 35, number 2, →JSTOR, page 107:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1973, Jere Fleck, “Scandinavian Studies and German Department Enrollments”, in Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 68:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
synonyms: Scandinavist
qualifier: humanities
glosses: A specialist in Scandinavian studies.