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Regional Identity and Multiculturalism: The Baltic Germans of Latgale in the Early 20th Century Latvian Literature [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2021 In the studies of Latvian culture and history, there is a number of investigations dedicated to the influence of Baltic German culture on Latvian culture. Hence the Latgale region was not given due attention in this regard. The role of the Baltic Germans
Alina Romanovska
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Christine Jencken’s Großmutters Erzählung (Grandmother’s Story) and the Aspect of Power in Baltic-German Autobiographical Writing [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2014 This paper aims to offer a postcolonial reading of an un published autobiography Großmutters Erzählung (Grandmother’s Story, 1869) by Christine Jencken. The author was born into a family of Baltic-German old nobility.
Maris Saagpakk
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The Relations between Transylvanian Saxons and Baltic Germans during the 1920s [PDF]
Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2009 The relationship between the Saxons and the German Balts has been already investigated, but the available archival material, however, allows me to deepen the problem of cultural relations between the two German minorities.
Vasile Ciobanu
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Hegemonic Confessions at the Baltic Periphery—Religious Contact in the Early Modern Baltic Region [PDF]
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023 The Baltic region has always been situated on the crossroads of the three main branches of Christianity: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism. As such, it has provided ample material for studying religious contact. This special issue brings together
Sebastian Rimestad, Knut Martin Stünkel
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The role of Nazi organizations in German repatriation from the Baltic states (1939-1941) [PDF]
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2006 In 1939 the Baltic states became the victims of cruel Hitler and Stalin agreements. Hitler and Stalin agreed that the German minority from the Baltic states would repatriate to Germany.
Ingrida Jakubavičienė
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Nationalities Papers, 2014 This article looks at the emergence of Latvian nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century from the intercultural perspective of postcolonial theory. The writings of early Young Latvians, and the reaction to them from the dominant Baltic German elite, show that the emergence of a modern Latvian nationalism is to a large extent due to postcolonial mimicry,
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Conciliation or Disappointment? Baltic German Reactions to Estonian and Latvian Recognition [PDF]
Acta Historica Tallinnensia, 2022 The aim of this article is to examine the perspective(s) of a small, but influential minority, the Baltic Germans, to the de jure recognition of the Estonian and Latvian nation-states by the United States of America in 1922.
Heidi Rifk
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Habitats and Biotopes in the German Baltic Sea
Biology, 2023 To maintain or enhance biodiversity and sea floor integrity, mapping benthic habitats is a mandatory requirement in compliance with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The EU Commission Decision distinguishes between Broad Habitat Types (BHTs) and Other Habitat Types (OHTs).
Denise Marx +6 more
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Worldview in Memoirs «Die Kavaliere von Illuxt» by Alexis von Engelhardt
Respectus Philologicus, 2021 The paper is based on the book of memoirs by Alexis von Engelhardt Die Kavaliere von Illuxt, published in 1949. In the territory of Latgale, which is discussed in the book, the Baltic Germans lived in small numbers, therefore the book is of historical ...
Valentina Talerko
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Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 1997 This article applies a comparative method for studying the role of the nobility in the formation of modern Baltic nations in order to elucidate the factors, which determined role differences.
Saulius Pivoras
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