Category:De gentivm aliquot migrationibus (1557)

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English: Europe of Nations or the Nation of Europe by Patrick J. Geary:
In 1555 Wolfgang Laz (Wolfgang Lazius), a Viennese court historian, humanist, and cartographer, set out to describe the origins of the “Franks, Alemans, Suebs, Marcomanni, Boii, Carni, Taurisci, Celts, and the Galatians,” all of whose descendants he counted among the inhabitants of the Habsburg lands. The result was his monumental De gentium migrationibus (De gentivm aliquot migrationibus, sedibus fixis, reliquijs, linguarumq[ue] initijs et immutationibus ac dialectis libri XII), the first comprehensive attempt to assign the origins of European peoples to a complex series of migrations. Although writing in Latin, Laz’s term migrationes gentium, was soon translated into German as Völkerwanderung or Migration of Peoples. (...)

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