TY - BOOK ID - 135085 TI - The origins of Old Germanic studies in the Low Countries PY - 1999 VL - 92 SN - 9004110313 9004247467 PB - Leiden Boston Köln Brill DB - UniCat KW - Germanic languages KW - History of civilization KW - Netherlands KW - 802.0 KW - Engels. Engelse taalkunde KW - Germanists KW - Philologists KW - History. KW - Study and teaching KW - History KW - Biography. KW - 802.0 Engels. Engelse taalkunde KW - Biography KW - Philologians KW - Scholars KW - Linguists KW - German studies specialists KW - Area specialists KW - Teutonic languages KW - Indo-European languages KW - Vliet, Jan van, KW - Van Vliet, Jan, KW - Vliet, Jan van, - 1622-1666. KW - Philologists - Netherlands - Biography. KW - Germanists - Netherlands - Biography. KW - Germanic languages - Study and teaching - Netherlands - History - 17th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135085 AB - 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. Van Vliet's activities provide an extraordinary example of the earliest attempts to approach Old Germanic languages from a comparative point of view. The cosmopolitan tradition of philological studies in the Dutch Republic as well as Van Vliet’s great admiration of Francis Junius (1590–1677), the founding-father of Germanic philology, formed the basis for his ideas about vernacular languages. His work allows us a unique insight in the pioneering seventeenth-century studies in Germanic philology. ER -