Language Purification Attempts during the German Empire: The „Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein“

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The year 1871 brought Germany a victory over France, concluding the Franco- Prussian War, and ended with the founding of the “Deutsches Reich“, the German Empire. As a result of the nationalistic elation felt all through society Herman Riege...