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This volume deals with the study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the seventeenth century. The work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666) has been taken as a starting point for a discussion of the intellectual background and philological methodology of seventeenth-century investigations into the earliest recorded forms of the Germanic languages. Van Vliet's activities provide an extraordinary example of the earliest attempts to approach Old Germanic languages from a comparative point of view. The cosmopolitan tradition of philological studies in the Dutch Republic as well as Van Vliet’s great admiration of Francis Junius (1590–1677), the founding-father of Germanic philology, formed the basis for his ideas about vernacular languages. His work allows us a unique insight in the pioneering seventeenth-century studies in Germanic philology.

Germanic languages --- History of civilization --- Netherlands --- 802.0 --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Germanists --- Philologists --- History. --- Study and teaching --- History --- Biography. --- 802.0 Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Biography --- Philologians --- Scholars --- Linguists --- German studies specialists --- Area specialists --- Teutonic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Vliet, Jan van, --- Van Vliet, Jan, --- Vliet, Jan van, - 1622-1666. --- Philologists - Netherlands - Biography. --- Germanists - Netherlands - Biography. --- Germanic languages - Study and teaching - Netherlands - History - 17th century.