Meaning of Scandinavianist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A supporter of Scandinavianism.
   historical
2. A specialist in Scandinavian studies.
   jargon

Examples

“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.”

“(rare)”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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