Title: The origins of Old Germanic studies in the Low Countries
First published: 1999
Description: This volume deals with the study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the seventeenth century. The work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666) has been taken as a starting point for a discussion of the intellectual background and philological methodology of seventeenth-century investigations into the earliest recorded forms of the Germanic languages.
Subjects: Germanic languages, History, Biography, Study and teaching, Germanists, Philologists, Germany, intellectual life, Germany, civilization, Germany, history, German language, old high german, 750-1050
Places: Netherlands
People: Jan van Vliet (1622-1666)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PD64.V55 D46 1998