Germanist

[ jur-muh-nist ]

noun

1. a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Germanist¹

1825–35; < German < Latin Germān ( ia ) Germany + -ist

Example Sentences

As to the Conquests, Germanist views have been formulated with great authority by Freeman.

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The Germanist School arose to show the extent to which modern constitutional ideas were connected with medieval facts, and the share that the German element has had in the development of institutions and classes.

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The Germanist school had held very high the principle of individual liberty, had tried to connect it with the Teutonic element in history, had explained its working in the society32 described by Tacitus, and had regretfully followed its decay in later times.

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Stubbs' point of view is a Germanist one.

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The Germanist school had to fight its way not only against Romanism, but against divers tenets of the Romantic school as represented by Savigny and Eichhorn, of which Romanists had availed themselves.

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