Bivalent Verbs and Their Pragmatic Particularities

Pătruţ, Bogdan; Furdu, Iulian; Pătruț, Monica

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69858-6_33

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“…152 As Iulia-Karin Patrut notes, he thus valued Zigeuner folklore not in its own right but rather for its ability to shed light on the origins of Indo-European culture. 153 Financial concerns also motivated Wlislocki: having concluded that Zigeuner culture would soon vanish, he believed that scholarship on the topic would be particularly lucrative. 154 Wlislocki's approach exemplified the influence of Romanticism on Zigeunerkunde.…”

Section: Heinrich Von Wlislockimentioning

confidence: 99%

Competitive Civilizing Missions: Hungarian Germans, Modernization, and Ethnographic Descriptions of theZigeunerbefore World War I

Davis

2017

Cent Eur Hist

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This article examines writings on the Zigeuner (“Gypsies”) by three prominent Hungarian-German scholars—Johann Schwicker, Anton Herrmann, and Heinrich von Wlislocki—as responses to Magyarization pressures, which divided Hungarian-Germans by threatening the traditional privileges of some while offering others opportunities for social advancement. Hungarian and German elites alike cast Zigeuner as primitive Naturvölker in an effort to legitimize reform efforts. By writing about the Zigeuner, scholars asserted competing Magyar and German models for modernization and reform. Passionate German nationalist Johann Schwicker called for the Zigeuner to assimilate into Hungarian and Romanian culture, arguing that Germanization was beyond their reach, thereby asserting German culture's supposedly superior status as an elite culture. By contrast, Hungarian nationalist Anton Herrmann urged the Magyarization of the Zigeuner to strengthen the Hungarian nation-state, denigrating the role of German and Romanian culture. Finally, Heinrich Wlislocki rejected all nationalist modernizing efforts, presenting the Zigeuner as a romantic symbol of the premodern age. In all three cases, Schwicker's, Herrmann's, and Wlislocki's Zigeuner bore very limited resemblance to Romani lived experience. Collectively, the writings of these three scholars illustrate both the range of Hungarian-German responses to nationalist modernization, as well as the role of national disputes in shaping Zigeunerkunde (“Gypsy Studies”).

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Section: Heinrich Von Wlislockimentioning

confidence: 99%