German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English, the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries was a Dutch philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar, folklorist, educator, writer, editor and public official who specialized in Germanic studies.
Jost Trier was a German philologist who was Chair of German Philology at the University of Münster from 1932 to 1961.
The Dębczyn culture is an archeological culture in Pomerania from the third to sixth centuries. It was derived from the neighboring Wielbark culture with influences from the Elbe region. The culture was superseded as the result of the later migrations of West Slavs, in particular of the Pomeranians.
Wolfgang Krause was a German philologist and linguist. A professor at the University of Göttingen for many years, Krause specialized in comparative linguistics, and was an authority on Celtic studies, Tocharian languages, Germanic studies, Old Norse and particularly runology.
Gustav Neckel was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Walter Hugo Hermann Baetke was a German historian of religion who specialized in Germanic studies. He was Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Leipzig.
Irmengard Rauch is a linguist and semiotician.
Karl Helm was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies
Heinrich Scheel was a German left-wing historian and longtime vice president of the East German Academy of Sciences and professor of modern history at Humboldt University of Berlin. Scheel was notable for putting forward a theory of the German radical at the time of the French revolution, in an attempt to determine an alternative tradition in Germany. Scheel was most notable for being a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, during World War II. He was a member of a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr, during the Nazi regime.
Hans Kuhn was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. He was Professor of Nordic philology at the University of Kiel.
Thomas Birkmann is a German philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.
Klaus Düwel was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A professor at the University of Göttingen, he was recognized as one of the world's leading experts on Germanic Antiquity.
Arnulf Krause is a German philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.
Norbert Wagner is a German philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.
Hans-Peter Naumann was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Konstantin Reichardt was a German-born American philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Wolfgang Golther was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A professor at the University of Rostock, Golther was a prominent authority on Medieval German literature and Germanic religion.
Georg Hüsing was an Austrian historian and philologist who specialized in Germanic studies and mythography.
Robert Herndon Fife Jr. was an American academic who specialized in German studies and served as Gebhard Professor of German and Chair of the German Department at Columbia University. He was the founder of The Germanic Review, former President of the AATG and President of the MLA. Fife wrote on German history, German language and literature, Martin Luther, and German romanticism and edited works by Heinrich Heine, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Ludwig Tieck.
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