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Blom, Alderik H., “Celtic studies, scholarly networks, and Modernekritik: Jan de Vries after the Second World War”, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 83:2 (Sept., 2023): 250–284.

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“Celtic studies, scholarly networks, and Modernekritik: Jan de Vries after the Second World War”
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83
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250–284
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This study is concerned with the contribution of Jan de Vries (1890–1964), a controversial Dutch scholar of Germanic and Old Norse philology, folklore, and comparative religion, to the discipline of Celtic studies. First, therefore, his work is located within the context of De Vries’ biography and of his scholarly network of the post-war era, notably his correspondence with likeminded colleagues such as Dumézil, Höfler, Wikander, and Eliade. Subsequently, his theories of Celtic and Germanic ethnogenesis are examined, as well as his ideas about the connections between the Celtic and Germanic pre-Christian religions and traditions of heroic saga. Finally, the relatively limited impact of De Vries’s Celtic studies is elaborated on.
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History, society and culture
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Jan de VriesVries (Jan de)
(d. 1964)
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Dennis Groenewegen
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