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“Pro-Raphaelites”: The Classical Ideal in Religious Art and the Agency of Artworks in Estonia from 1810 to 1840

open access: yesArts, 2023
This article analyzes Baltic German religious art based on examples from Estonia in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on artistic networks and the reclamation of a Renaissance classical ideal.
Liisa-Helena Lumberg-Paramonova
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Key actors of German ‘soft power’ in the Baltics

open access: yesBaltic Region, 2016
This article focuses on Germany’s key ‘soft power’ actors promoting the country’s interests in the Baltics. The authors analyse the policies of ‘soft power’ aimed to create a positive image of Germany in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The article examines the activity of German political foundations, research institutions, communities, language ...
MEGEM MAKSIM   +2 more
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The Dilemma of Dual Loyalty. Werner Hasselblatt and the Rise and Failure of Baltic German Minority Politics in the Inter-War Period

open access: yesStudies on National Movements, 2021
German minority politics in the Baltic states during the inter-war period has regained significant scholarly attention since the 1990s, when the Estonian concept of cultural autonomy from 1925 was rediscovered as a strategy for solving post 1989 ...
Jörg Hackmann
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Climate Change in the Baltic Sea : 2021 Fact Sheet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Climate change effects on the Baltic Sea environment are manifold. It is for example expected that water temperature and sea level will rise, and sea ice cover will decrease.
Lips, Urmas   +77 more
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Baltic, Slavic, Germanic

open access: yesBaltistica, 2016
The western Indo-European vocabulary in Baltic and Slavic is the result of an Indo-European substratum which contained an older non-Indo-European layer and was part of the Corded Ware horizon. The numbers show that a considerable part of the vocabulary was borrowed after the split between Baltic and Slavic, which came about when their speakers moved ...
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The Culture of Societies and Latvian Books in Livland and Courland during the Early 19th Century

open access: yesAkadēmiskā Dzīve, 2021
The article explores the role of the Baltic German patriotic, economic, and literary societies in development of Latvian literary culture during the early 19th century when these groups were established.
Pauls Daija
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Umsiedler als Übersetzer

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2018
‘Re-settlers’ as interpreters: remarks on self-presentation and violence among members of the Baltic German Minority in the National Socialist Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst – SD).
Daniel Bißmann
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Für unsere Nationalen: Baltic German contribution to Latvian poetry in the 19th century

open access: yesInterlitteraria
The article examines 19th-century Latvian literature within the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire (Kurzeme and Vidzeme), emphasising its emergence in the context of complex social, cultural and national interrelations.
Māra Grudule
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Activities of Herbert Grant-Watson, British Foreign Office Representative in Latvia in March–August 1919

open access: yesLatvijas Universitātes Žurnāls. Vēsture, 2023
The first half of the Latvian War of Independence, from November 1918 to the summer of 1919, was particularly difficult, with the interests of all neighbouring countries and the  divided Latvian society (Baltic Germans, Latvians, Bolsheviks, etc ...
Ēriks Jēkabsons
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Political activity of Baltic Germans during the Latvian War of Independence: July, 1919 - end of 1919

open access: yes, 2021
Maģistra darba mērķis ir analizēt vācbaltiešu politisko darbību Latvijas Neatkarības kara laikā (1919.g. jūlijā - decembrī), sniedzot priekštatu par vācbaltiešu politisko lomu pētāmā laika posma notikumos.
Grūbe, Ilze
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