Burschenschaft
Americannoun
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Burschenschaften
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of Burschenschaft
literally: youth association
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A certain Von Kotzebue, a novelist of some notoriety, suspected of being a Russian spy, wrote a book in which he attacked the Burschenschaft with great severity.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Stourdze defended himself in the public papers; two youths, not students, but belonging to the Burschenschaft, afterwards challenged him to single combat, whom, however, he answered only with words in the newspapers.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
During his abode in Jena, he was a member of the so-called Burschenschaft, but at the same time also of another company, which he termed a Literary Union.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
The gymnastic schools, as the rendezvous of the Burschenschaft, are unhappily cried down, and are thereby fallen completely into neglect.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
In his history we behold the fac-simile of the history of the whole Burschenschaft to which he belonged.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
The societies of the Burschenschaften are still considered to have a political complexion and the corps proper have no dealings with them.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
The Burschenschaften societies of students had their origin in political opposition to this separation of the students into communities from the various states.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
Raumer, in his "History of German Universities," testifies that the Burschenschaften abolished there the last vestige of that system of hazing practised on new-comers, which seems to be an indigenous weed of the college soil.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
This spirit spread particularly through the agencies of the student fraternities called "Burschenschaften," and the athletic associations, the "Turners," advocated and fostered by Jahn.
The originators of the Burschenschaften movement, for example, were eleven students at Jena.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
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