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- Title
Aspects of the Saxon Identity in Transylvania in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century.
- Authors
MITU, SORIN; GOGÂLTAN, ANCA
- Abstract
The present article focuses on the question of the Germanity of the Saxons in eighteenth and nineteenth century historical writings of Martin Felmer, Michael Lebrecht, Georg Daniel Teutsch and Friedrich Teutsch. Beginning with the Middle Ages, the most important identification element of the Transylvanian Saxons was their Germanity. Besides stating and underlining their German character this problem usually implied invocation of specific features and details concerning this subject such as: the problem of the (German) origins of the Saxons what kind of Germans were the Transylvanian Saxons, which were their specific characteristics in relation to the mother nation; the German purity of the Saxons and their excelency in the general context of the German populations; the connections (political, cultural and identity ones) with the German homeland.
- Subjects
TRANSYLVANIA (Romania); SAXONS; SELF-perception; ROMANIANS; GROUP identity; INVOCATION
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2013, Vol 22, p291
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article