Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie w historiografii niemieckiej: podstawy, prace, perspektywy

ENGermany is not among the successor states of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Germans never played a greater role there either. Therein lies a diff erence to the neighboring Old Livonia and the Republics of Latvia and Estonia of today. In effect the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has neither in German national history nor in the German Baltic historiography, steeped in tradition, attracted greater interest. Single aspects were taken up in works on the Teutonic Order or on Prussian history. Th e neighboring state Lithuania appeared therefore less as an independent actor then as an object of German influence. An apparent feature is that at least in some habilitation theses themes from Lithuanian history were delved into as such. The choice is explained by a career strategy necessary within the German academic system. The article is an attempt at a critical approach to these works. Important seems an ideal-typical distinction of an ethnocentric, politicised and interdisciplinary Ostforschung on the one hand, and a more traditional (referring strongly to Historicism) history of Eastern Europe on the other. In this respect the question is raised, whether we are still entitled to speak of a “German” historiography at all.

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