Date of Award
Spring 5-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Dr. Joe Perry
Second Advisor
Dr. Jared Poley
Abstract
Historians have posited a number of theories about nationalism. Using Anthony D. Smith's historic ethno-symbolic theory, this thesis examines the development of German national identity in the decades following the French Revolution up to the 1848 revolutions and the National Assembly that met in Frankfurt to write a constitution for the German Nation. Martin Luther was an important figure to Germans in the nineteenth century and a number of influential intellectuals drew on his contributions to define themselves as a distinctive people, even though Germans as yet, had no nation-state. The particular contributions of Luther examined in this thesis are language, music and concepts of freedom and unity.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/4059755
Recommended Citation
Dewhurst, Ruth L., "The Legacy of Luther: National Identity and State-Building in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/4059755