Citations:Zipser German

English citations of Zipser German

adjective: of people, regions, topics

• 1987, György Lengyel, The Hungarian Business Elite in Historical Perspective: Career Patterns and Attitudes of the Economic Leaders in the Nineteenth and the First Half of the Twentieth Century:

  As an army contractor during the War of Independence in 1848-1849, he was appointed government commissioner of the forges in the Zipser German region of Northern Hungary. This political activism earned him much harrassment during the post-1849 absolutistic period.

• 2005, Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar, German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945 (Berghahn Books, →ISBN), page 102:

  By publishing regular press reports and articles on Zipser German or Carpathian subjects, a tradition established by the defunct Zipser Working Community, the IHF directly and indirectly helped spread the DP's political message.

• 2011, Darren (Norm) Longley, Tim Burford, The Rough Guide to Romania (Penguin, →ISBN), page 260:

  In the nineteenth century its [Gura Humorului's] population was seventy to eighty percent Zipser German and twenty percent Jewish; the Germans left after 1945 and the last Jew died in 2006, so the population is now all ethnic Romanian.

• 2013, William Woys Weaver, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From (Algonquin Books, →ISBN), page 276:

  Both of these peppers were brought from the Zips capital of Leutschau (present-day Levoca, Slovakia) to Mátrafüred, Hungary, in 1948 by a descendant of a Zipser German preacher who had maintained an extensive horticultural collection in the early nineteenth century.

• 2016, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Romania (Rough Guides UK, →ISBN):

  Eight kilometres north of Cârlibaba (founded by Zipser German foresters in the late eighteenth century), the road forks towards the Rotunda Pass into Transylvania, and the Prislop Pass into Maramureş, where the Horă at Prislop Festival occurs on the second Sunday in August.

noun: person

• 1840, The British and Foreign Review Or European Quarterly Journal, page 286:

  In later times, too, proprietors who desired to improve their estates have settled Germans under various conditions, for the most part very favourable, upon them; so that they are to be found in almost every county. They are most numerous in those on the western frontier, towards Austria Proper. Another very considerable colony is that of the Zipser Germans, where they inhabit the privileged Zipser free boroughs, and other small towns.

• 1938, Hungarian Frontier Readjustment League, Danubian Review. Danubian News:

  The newspaper, which is published in Kesmark, cites the resolutions adopted in that town in 1918 on 13th November and 9th December by the Zipser Germans and the Germans of Upper Hungary respectively, and declares that the Zipser Party refuses to withdraw a single one of the demands contained therein, which are their demands today as much as they were twenty years ago. The text of those resolutions is as follows.

• 2002, Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe (University of Toronto Press, →ISBN), page 1772:

  Germans living beyond contiguous German ethnolinguistic territory were often referred to by regional names: Baltic, Polish, Volhynian, Black Sea, and Bessarabian Germans in the Russian Empire; Gottschee, Galician, and Bukovinian Germans in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire; Zipser Germans, Sathmar Germans, Transylvanian Saxons, and Danube Swabians in the Hungarian Kingdom; and the Dobruja Germans in Romania. Other groupings were also frequently used ...

• 2005, Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar, German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945 (Berghahn Books, →ISBN), page 103:

  Despite (or perhaps because of) their suspicions of the Zipser Germans, both the DP leadership and Reich agencies considered it politically indispensable to maintain the IHF in Käsmark, ...

• 2008, Charles W. Ingrao, Franz A. J. Szabo, The Germans and the East (Purdue University Press, →ISBN), page 4:

  In the subsequent two centuries important German-language enclaves were created in Transylvania (Transylvanian Saxons) and in Szepes County in northern Hungary (Zipser Germans)[.]

• 2013, Carl Mosk, Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia (Routledge, →ISBN), page 142:

  Through this mechanism of state consolidation a community of Zipser Germans was established in the twelfth century and prospered in the mountains separating Slovakia from Galicia.

• 2014, S Muresan, Social Market Economy: The Case of Germany (Springer, {{ISBN|9783319092133), page 242:

  In German, the word “Aussiedler” describes the ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, for example, the Transylvanian Saxons, Banat Swabians and the Zipser Germans in Bukowina.

• 2016, Stefan Gröschl, Diversity in the Workplace: Multi-disciplinary and International Perspectives (Routledge,→ISBN)

  They were separated into the following groups: Transylvanian Saxons – the largest and oldest, often simply equated with the Germans of Romania – Satu Mare Swabians (mostly Banat Swabians, groups of Danube Swabians in Romania), Transylvanian Landler Protestants, Zipser Germans [...], Regat Germans, including the Dobrujan Germans, Bukovina Germans and Bessarabian Germans (for the period 1918–1940).

• (Can we date this quote?) (published 2001), an earlier work(?) quoted by Alexander Jacob, Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy, 1870-1940 : Selected Readings (→ISBN):

  Whether concluded unwillingly or willingly (the journey of the Count Otto von Stolberg to Baden-Baden is not forgotten), the pact is there and will remain existing since it has appeared untouchable even to the Count Taaffe. Only when the non-Catholic German-language churches are united under their own rule, when Austria will have acquired so much wit as to strengthen the Siebenburger Saxon and the Zipser German through immigration from Germany, and ...

multiple senses

• 2000, Steven Béla Várdy, Dennis P. Hupchick, Richard William Weisberger, Hungary's Historical Legacies: Studies in Honor of Steven Béla Várdy (East European Monographs), page 30:

  The origins of the Zipser Germans and their language are among the most critical questions in the history of the region, and they still remain the subjects of research by a number of historians and Germanists. Many nineteenth-century historians, like Samuel Weber, did not concern themselves with these problems, but accepted the traditional designation of Zipser Saxons. Twentieth-century research has shown that the use of the word "Saxon" in this case was incorrect, and that it was ...

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  The topic of Zipser German origins was first seriously raised by regional historians, such as Johann Liptak (1889-1958). His student Ernst Schwartz continued research into this problem with his Die Herkunft der Siebenburgen und Zipser Sachsen [The Arrival of the Transylvanian and Zipser Saxons], in which he attempted to show a connection between the Transylvanian and Zipser Saxons and the Rhineland. Schwarz's thesis has been challenged by recent scholars.

• 2007, Gabriele Lunte, The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas: A Unique Bavarian Dialect (Peter Lang Pub. Incorporated), page 2 and footnote thereon:

  This article published by O. Petersen et al. in the Handwörterbuch des Grenz- und Auslandsdeutschtums discusses both dialects generally, as well as the Zipser German dialect, whereby the distinctive linguistic elements of all three dialects are based to a large degree on his own findings.

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  The Zipser Germans came to Bukovina from the Zips mountains in [what is] nowadays Slovakia. In 1876, the German dialectologist Georg Wenker developed forty test sentences that remain a valuable research tool for German dialect research. These sentences consist of words that have the most useful phonological and morphological features for the differentiation of German dialects. They were a part of an interview questionnaire that was sent to schoolteachers throughout Germany, ...